Jan-Ola Östman on the Internet

Video about the Deaf and signed languages (in Finnish).

Radio interview on dialects (in Swedish).

Blog.

Home page (private).

Interviews:

“Taal dialekt i staan” (‘Speak dialect on the town; in Swedish).

On challenges for life after the university (in Finnish).

Grammar as politics (in Swedish).

On minority languages and dialects (in English).

On domain loss and language policy (in Swedish).

By Jan-Ola Östman (Tomas Sjöblom, ed.)

Jan-Ola Östman

Jan-Ola Ingemar Östman
Born October 14, 1951, Solf

Doctor of Philosophy 1986 (linguistics), University of California, Berkeley
MA (FM) 1977 and MPhil (FL) 1981 (English language and literature), Åbo Akademi University
Master of Arts 1976 (linguistic science), Reading University

Associate professor 1989–1998 and full professor of English philology 1998-2002, acting professor of general linguistics 1993–1996, professor of Scandinavian languages 2002-, University of Helsinki
Professor II (part-time) of Scandinavian languages 2006–2010, University of Tromsø, Norway

Director of the doctoral program for language studies at the University of Helsinki 2013-

Research interests
Pragmatics, discourse and media; construction grammar and construction discourse; minorities, dialects, language contact, identity and variability; language policy, sociology of language, ideology and applied linguistics

Publications, research projects and other academic activities

Photo: Leila Mattfolk
Written by Jan-Ola Östman (Tomas Sjöblom, ed.)