Jan-Ola Östman

Teaching

I retired in 2016

So far, only a couple of courses that I taught

after that are recorded below

2020

Spring term (January–March) 2020

Uppsala University, Sweden

Department of Linguistics and Philology

Course on Semantics and Pragmatics

2019

Fall term (November 2018 – January 2019)

Uppsala university, Sweden

Department of Scandinavian languages

Undergraduate course, Språket i samhället ['Language in society'], 24 hrs

2018

October 21–28, 2018

IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Org.: IPrA - International Pragmatics Association & IITGn – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Workshop in pragmatics: The pragmatics of political discourse in the public sphere

Mini-course on  "Social responsibility in studying language use"

a) "Pragmatics as grammar: Responsibility, implicit anchoring, frames and constructions"

b) "Responsibility for language(s) & Issues of self-reflexivity"

c) "Responsibility for language, linguists’ responsibilities, ideology, and power"

2016

Spring term (January–May)

– my last term of teaching as professor at the University of Helsinki

* Grammatikens trender och traditioner: Konstruktionsdiskurs ['Trends and traditions in Grammar: Construction Discourse'], 28 hrs, Scandinavian languages, University of Helsinki

* Pragmatik i praktiken ['Pragmatics in practice'], 28 hrs, Scandinavian languages, University of Helsinki

* Seminarium ['MA seminar'], 28 hrs, Scandinavian languages, University of Helsinki

* CxG-piiri ['Construction Grammar Circle'], together with Jaakko Leino, 10 hrs, University of Helsinki

* Regional variation ['Regional variation'], 10 hrs, Scandinavian languages, University of Helsinki

I might add "interesting courses" below – as, and if, I remember them

2010

October 10–15

Organizer and teacher of a PhD Course on Narrative and responsibility, at UiT, the Arctic University in Tromsø, Norway

– with Srikant Sarangi, Michael Bamberg & Gunter Senft