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About Jens Allwood
- Jens Allwood (born 20 August 1947) is a professor of linguistics at the University of Gothenburg and Head of SCCIIL - Interdisciplinary center, University of Gothenburg. Jens Allwood is since 1986 professor of Linguistics at Göteborg University.
- He is also director of the interdisciplinary cognitive science and communication oriented center SSKKII at the same university. His research primarily includes work in semantics and pragmatics.
- He is investigating spoken language interaction from several perspectives,e.g.
- corpus linguistics, computer modelling of dialog, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics as well as intercultural communication.
- Presently he is heading projects concerned with the semantics of spoken language phenomena, multimodal communication, cultural variation in communication and the influence of social activity on spoken language. Activity-based communication analysis (ACA) is a term originally coined by Jens Allwood.
- It constitutes an interdisciplinary approach for analyzing social activity inspired by areas such as philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, psychology and sociology.
- ACA has evolved from a criticism of some shortcomings in texts put forward by scholars (such as Wittgenstein; Austin; Searle; Sacks; Grice; Sinclair & Coulthard).
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