Asbjørg Westum

Asbjørg Westum is a Linguistics Researcher at Linnaeus University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Educational Linguistics and Language for Specific Purposes. Her work explores cross-linguistic meaning-making, cognitive semantics, and pandemic discourse.

Research Interests:

• Discourse analysis in public health communication
• Cognitive approaches to folk disease concepts
• Multilingual writing in Sámi communities
• Dialectological studies in Northern Sweden
• Teacher cognition in refugee education
• Medical terminology and metaphorical language

Key Trends:Her 15 most recent publications (2024-1993) span pandemic communication, multilingual writing, folk medical terms, dialect studies, and trauma-informed pedagogy. Common keywords include discourse analysis, medical linguistics, cognitive semantics, language education, and dialectology.