Tanya Karoli Christensen

Primary fields of research

The theoretical foundation for my research is functional grammar combined with sociolinguistics in the tradition of Language Variation and Change. In my current research, I perform multivariate analyses of epistemic/discourse markers, and of word order in subclauses, all in modern Danish speech.

My recent involvement in the field of Forensic Linguistics is a direct extension of my previous research interests in that it applies methods and concepts from semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics to any type of linguistic data in legal cases.

CV

Education                                                                                                                                    

June 2009            Professional postgraduate teacher training, Roskilde University

January 2007       PhD in Linguistics and Language Use, Roskilde University

March 2002         MA in Danish and Philosophy, Roskilde University

Employment                                                                 _                                                               

2015                    Associate Professor, Dept for Nordic Studies and Linguistics, U of Copenhagen

2012- 2015          Associate Professor, LANCHART, U of Copenhagen

2010-2011            Post doc, LANCHART, U of Copenhagen

2009                     Assistant professor, Danish, Linguistics 3, U of Copenhagen

2007-2009           Assistant professor, Connecting grammaticalisation, Roskilde U

2002-2006            PhD scholarship, Roskilde U

Select courses                                                                                                                            

2015                    Intensive courses in Forensic Lingustics, Hofstra U

2013-2014           Research Management Course, CBS Executive

2010                    Pre-leadership course, U of Copenhagen

Current research

• Forensic Linguistics
• the combination of sociolinguistics and functional linguistics
• semantic variation
• word order in subclauses
• epistemic expressions
• discourse markers
• everyday written language

Teaching

I teach Language 2 and 3 (grammar and text linguistics, semantics, pragmatics and linguistic theories).

I supervise projects within

• Forensic Linguistics
• the grammar of (spoken) Danish
• pragmatic and semantic text analysis
• speech acts and sentence types
• verbal categories and their contribution to sentence meaning
• dialogic particles in Danish