Julia Sjöberg

Keywords

• Sociolinguistics
• language ideologies
• language attitudes
• multilingualism
• German
• Spanish

Biography

I have been a doctoral candidate at Uppsala university’s Department of Modern Languages since November of 2020 and I am defending my dissertation on the 2nd of October 2026. I have taught different linguistics and language competence courses pertaining to Tyska A and Tyska C. I earned my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in German Literature and Linguistics as well as Spanish linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. There, I also worked as a student research assistent, i.a. in the research project Historisches Vorlesungskorpus. Moreover, I have professional experience working in the publishing industry.

Research

My main research interests are sociolinguistics and multilingualism. My dissertation focuses on the notion of correct language use by Spanish L2-speakers of German. It adopts a sociolinguistic perspective and departs from the assumption that the perceptions of linguistic correctness are highly context-bound and hence shaped by language ideologies. It analyzes both the macro level of the L2-speakers’ everyday language use and the micro level of specific ubiquitous, but not necessarily accepted, grammatical forms. The thesis is conceptualized as a mixed-methods study consisting of interviews with L2-speakers of German and a verbal guise experiment conducted with L1-speakers of German.