Ewa Jonsson

Ewa Jonsson is a Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Mid Sweden University, affiliated with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her academic profile focuses on corpus linguistics and historical sociopragmatics, with particular expertise in analyzing register variation and speech-related features in written contexts. She serves as director of studies in the English section since 2024.

Research Interests: Jonsson's work combines multidimensional analysis with sociopragmatic investigations, notably exploring orality in computer-mediated communication (CMC) and historical courtroom discourse. Key contributions include studies on intensifiers, emotives, and pragmatic markers such as emojis, with a focus on diachronic shifts in linguistic strategies of involvement.

Publications: Her research outputs include the monograph Conversational Writing (2015) and co-edited volume Voices Past and Present (2020). The 2024 co-authored book Intensifiers in Late Modern English (Cambridge University Press) represents her most recent work on courtroom pragmatics.