About
Erik Falk is a Lecturer in Swedish language at Uppsala University's Department of Nordic Languages, where he has worked since 2013. He is actively involved in the Faculty of Educational Sciences' Collaboration Committee and the Faculty of Languages' Undergraduate Education Board.
- Subject Teacher Qualification (1985)
- PhD in Nordic Languages (2011)
His research focuses on historical pragmatics, speech act theory, and Swedish language didactics, particularly analyzing 17th-century insults and academic writing. Publications span linguistics, language education, and Swedish cultural history.
Recent works examine pragmaticalization processes, taboo language evolution, and thesis-writing transitions in engineering education. He has contributed to journals like RASK and Language Didactics in Practice.
- 2022: Review of Lindberg's genre history analysis
- 2020: Funeral rhetoric of Lars Kagg and textbook analysis
- 2018: Thesis-writing in engineering education
- 2017-2014: Studies on historical Swedish swearing
- 2011: Historical speech act analysis of Uppsala insults
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