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Anna-Malin Karlsson is a Professor at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University. She specializes in discourse analysis, social semiotics, multimodality, and linguistic ethnography, with a focus on literacy practices and communication in institutional settings. Previously, she served as Professor of Sociolinguistics at Uppsala University (2012-2018) and Professor of Swedish at Södertörn University (pre-2012). Her research explores health literacy, medical communication, and multimodal interaction, particularly in prenatal heart failure diagnoses and elder care documentation.
- Research Interests: Discourse analysis, social semiotics, multimodality, linguistic ethnography, health literacy, medical communication
- Supervision: Doctoral students Linda Pfister (Uppsala University), Shiro Shibata, Lisa Rudebeck
- Projects: Health literacy in information society (Swedish Research Council funded), Care work as language work, CELiNE literacy education initiative
Current Work: Investigating recontextualization of medical visuals from clinical settings to social media platforms, using social semiotics to analyze hand-drawn sketches versus digital illustrations. Recent publications examine how drawing acts as a consultation structuring mechanism and the semiotic affordances of different heart image types.
Methodological Expertise: Combines systemic conversation analysis, genre theory, and rhetoric with tools from activity theory and new literacy studies to analyze cross-contextual meaning-making practices involving 8 audio-recorded fetal cardiology consultations and digital health communication platforms.
