Kjersti Fløttum#
| Membership Number: | 4651 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uib.no/en/persons/Kjersti.Flottum |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Professor of French linguistics, Faculty of Humanities/Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
- 2013 Professor II, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
- 1989 - 1995 Associate professor of French, Faculty of Humanities/French section, University of Stavanger
- 1982 - 1989 Research assistant and Research fellow, Research Council of Norway (RCN)/University of Trondheim (now NTNU)
Fields of Scholarship
- Semantics-pragmatics
- climate change discourse
- Linguistic polyphony
- Text and genre theory
- Discourse analysis
- Narrative theory
- political discourse
- scientific discourse
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2016 Award for excellence in research dissemination, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen
- 2014 Honorary doctorate: Doctor honoris causa, Faculty of languages, Uppsala University, Sweden
