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Lars Fant is a Professor at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University, focusing on Pragmatics, Interactional Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Intercultural Communication. He has supervised over 20 PhD and MA theses in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, and co-authored key language education materials like Bonnier's Spanish Grammar (2004, revised 2015) and a Course in Mediation (2007).
- Research Groups: Co-founder of RomSLA (Romance Languages and Second Language Acquisition) and RomLing (Romance Linguistics).
- Projects: Led programs like 'High-level Proficiency in Second Language Use' (funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) and 'Interaction, Identity, and Language Structure' (funded by SU Humanities grant).
Research Trends from his 200+ publications include cross-linguistic analysis of pragmatic markers, discourse strategies in advanced L2 users, and prosodic transfer from L1 to L2. His work bridges theoretical linguistics (e.g., syntactic periphery, modalisation) and applied pedagogy, emphasizing contrastive approaches in language teaching.
Teaching spans BA/MA/PhD levels, covering Spanish phonetics, second language acquisition, scientific methodology, and historical linguistics. His supervision includes topics like metadiscursive markers, causative motion expressions, and discourse strategies in heritage speakers.
