g84 Germanic Languages

V. SWEDISH STUDIES* LANGUAGE

By KERSTIN PETERSSON,LecturerinSwedish, UniversityofEastAnglia (This survey covers the years 1992-94)

I. GENERAL Bertil Molde, Svenska idag: svar pll sprllk.frllgor, Prisma, I992, 239 pp. Leve mllngfalden! (MINS, 37), I992, 22I pp., is a collection of2o essays on language in a variety of registers, dedicated to Barbro Soderberg. Nils Erik Enkvist, Linguistic Research in Sweden, Humanistisk-sam• hallsvetenskapliga forskningsradet (HSFR), Igg2, 128 pp. Karl• Hampus Dahlstedt, Frammande ord i vardagssvenskan, Norstedt, Igg2, I 77 pp., deals with loan words in everyday Swedish. Jan Svensson, Sprllk och offintlighet (LSNS, Ser. A, 47) 1993, I8o pp., discusses language change in the political debate. Sirpa Koiranen, Sprllk, musik och kultur (MINS, 36), I992, 268 pp., is a dissertation on the language used in music reviews and the way it reflects cultural values. *Sprllkbruk, grammatik och sprllkforandring, Lund, Institutionen for nordiska sprak, Lunds universitet, 375 pp., is a Festschrift for Ulf Teleman. Ulla-Britt Kotsinas, Ungdomssprak (Ord och Stil, 25), I84 pp., is a survey of the language of young people and Vralbedariskt (SSSN, 78), by the same author, deals with the slang used by young girls. The book incorporates Astrid Erisman's slang dictionary from I932. Sprak, sprllkbruk och k'im, ed. Tove Bull, Britt Louise Gunnarsson, and Caroline Liberg (Association Suedoise de Linguistique Appliquee, ASLA's skriftserie, 5), 1992, 376 pp., is a report from ASLA's Nordic symposium in Uppsala, 7-9 November I991. Karin Mardsjo, Manniska, text, teknik (Linkoping Studies in Arts and Science, 82) diss., with English summary, is an analysis of technical handbooks as a means of communication. Ulla Borestam Uhlmann, Skandinaver samtalar (SINSU, 38), 222 pp., is an analysis oflinguistic and interactional strategies in conversations between Danish, Nor• wegian and Swedish speakers. The dissertation is based on the premise that conversation provides room for negotiation in order to neutralize linguistic and cultural dissimilarities. The author's hypo• thesis offers two strategies: either a search for a lowest common denominator or a series of interactive moves, made to prevent and resolve misunderstandings. She found that the second of the two strategies is more in evidence. Eva Ersson, 'Det ar mllnen att nil -' (Nordsvenska, g), Umea, Igg2, 225 pp., diss., with English summary, *The place of publication of books is unless otherwise indicated. Language gas is a study of the language and the world of ideas of six computer• interested boys, based on Wittgenstein's philosophy oflanguage.

2. RuNOLOGY AND OLDER TExTs Lena Peterson, Svenskt runordsregister (Runron, 2), 2nd rev. edn, 79 pp., is a word index of the Swedish runic inscriptions, with an English summary. Jan Axelsson, Mellansvenska runristare (Runron, 5), I993, I30 pp., is an index of signed inscriptions and inscriptions attributed to particular rune-masters in central Sweden. In his dissertation Runor och religiositet (Runron, 7), I992, 290 pp., Rune Palm presents a study of variations in the wording of the Scandinavian commemora• tive inscriptions. Several surveys of runic inscriptions from a specific local area have been published, notably Marit Ahlen, Roslagens runstenar (Norrtalje kulturnamnds skriftserie, 22), I992, 7I pp.; Berit Wallenberg, Runstenar pa Lovo, , Lovo Hembygdsforening, I993, 55 pp.; and Ingemar Carlsson and Bror Erik Ohlsson, Turist i vikingamas spar, Eskilstuna, Publicist-duktor, I993, 64 pp., which is a guide to runic inscriptions in and around Eskilstuna. Runmarkt: fran brev till klotter. 'Rune-Marked': from Letter Writing to Graffiti, ed. Solbrit Benneth, Carlsson, Riksantikvarieam• betet, medeltidsmuseum, 2 I 3 pp., describes runic inscriptions from the Middle Ages. Roger Andersson, Postillor och predikan (Scripta minora/Sallskapet Runica et Medirevalia, I), I 993, 27 I pp., is a dissertation on philological and functional aspects of a medieval religious text tradition.

3· PROSODY Anders Eriksson, Aspects of Swedish Speech Rhythm ( Monographs in Linguistics, g), I992, 234 pp. Olle Kjellin, Svensk prosodi i praktiken, Uppsala, Hallgren & Fallgren, I9I pp., is a book of instructions and exercises in Swedish pronunciation and speech rhythm for the foreign student of the language. *De nordiska sprakens prosodi/Nordic Prosody, VI, ed. Bjorn Granstrom and Lennart Nord, A & W International, I993, 2I2 pp., is a collection of papers from a symposium held in Stockholm I2-I4 August Igg2. Metrik och modernism, ed. Lars Hulden and Helena Solstrand-Pipping (Skrifter utgivna av Centrum fOr metriska studier, CMS, 5), Gothenburg, Igg2, 208 pp., is a collection of papers from a Nordic conference in in March 199 I on the concept of rhythm in poetry and literary prose in different languages and periods. The articles include M. Nordman, 'Stilforskarna och rytmen.', pp. 47-62, and K. Wahlin, 'Boken Sent pa jorden I 932', pp. I 07-48, where the concept of rhythm is also applied to the visual sphere.