Professor Jens Allwood
Jens Allwood, Ph.D. is
Professor, Department of Applied Information Technology,
University of Göteborg; Head,
SCCIL — Center of Interdisciplinary Research, Göteborg;
and President of the
Immigrant Institute.
Jens is Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Intercultural Communication and is
co-editor of
Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and Cognition.
His research mainly comprises research in the areas of
semantics and pragmatics. Mostly this research has been focused on
interaction in spoken language including psycholinguistic and
sociolinguistic aspects. At present he is heading projects focused on
semantics for spoken language activity-based communication analysis,
cultural variation in communication and the visualization of complex
information.
Some current projects are: Deep Lexical Concept Analysis,
Activity-Based Variation in Spoken Language, Trust as Resource in Striving for
Rationality, Intelligent Instruments for Information Processing, Cultural
Models of Conflict Handling — an intercultural and interdisciplinary
study of Malaysia, and Information Visualization and Exploration Support (IVES).
Activity-based communication analysis (ACA) is a term originally coined
by Jens. It constitutes an interdisciplinary approach for
analyzing social activity inspired by areas such as philosophy,
linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
His papers include
On the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic feedback,
An activity based approach to pragmatics,
The MUMIN coding scheme for the annotation of feedback, turn management and sequencing phenomena,
Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of variation in meaning,
Cross linguistic interpretation of emotional prosody,
Speech management — On the non-written life of speech, and
Bodily communication dimensions of expression and content.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Jens earned his Ph.D. in 1976 with the dissertation
Linguistic communication as action and cooperation at
Göteborg University.
Read his
Google Scholar citations and his
Wikipedia profile.