Jacob Thøgersen

CV

Academic positions

1.8.2014 - : Associate professor, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics.
1.12.2011 - 31.7.2014: Associate professor, LARM og The Lanchart Center, University of Copenhagen.
1.11.2010 - 30.11.2011: Postdoc, LARM og The Lanchart Center, University of Copenhagen.
1.12.2008 – 30.10.2010: Assistant professor, Center for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics.
1.1.2008 – 30.11.2008: Research assistant, The Lanchart Center, University of Copenhagen
1.8.2006 – 31.12.2007: Associate professor in Danisn Language University of Island.
1.8.2003 – 31.7.2006: Ph.d.-student, The Danish Language Council og The Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen.
1.9.2002 – 31.7.2003:Research assistant, The Danish Language Council.

Academic degrees

2008: Ph.d., University of Copenhagen, on the dissertation Hør du hvad de siger - at undersøge danskernes holdninger til engelsk [Listen to what they say - investigating Danes' attitudes towards English].
2002: MA, Danish and History of Religions, University of Copenhagen.

Primary fields of research

Language and language attitudes
Discourses and discourse analysis
Dissemination, intelligibility and comprehensibility
Language change and language variation
Media language and media language norms
Interviews as research method
Language policy and language ideologies
Danish and English as working languages
Inter-nordic communication and Nordic ideologies

Teaching

I teach at the programme of Psychology of Language and the programme of Danish. At Danish, I have primarly taught Language 1, Orthography and Phonetics, Norm and Vartiation. At Psychology of Language, I have taught the courses "The psychology of language as a basis for academic and professional communication" and "Introduction to the psychology of language, the interdisciplinary foundation".

I supervise BA projects and MA theses in a wide range of topics within the psychology of language and (sociol)linguistics.