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Sofia Orrbén is an Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Nordic Languages, Uppsala University, specializing in forensic linguistics and gender studies. Her work critically examines how legal discourse constructs victims and perpetrators in sexual crime judgments.
- Email: sofia.orrben@nordiska.uu.se
- ORCHID ID: 0000-0002-2285-7924
Research Focus: Combines language analysis with legal studies to deconstruct rape myths and power dynamics in Swedish judicial texts. Explores discursive boundaries between voluntariness and involuntaryness, victim accountability, and bodily representation in verdicts.
Publications (2015-2024): Investigates terminology in sexual crime convictions, judicial positioning, and genre analysis of Swedish verdicts. Highlights linguistic mechanisms reproducing stereotypical victim/perpetrator narratives.
Thesis Project: Analyzes language use in sexual crime judgments to challenge rape myths and improve judicial communication. Supervised by Andreas Nord and Karin Idevall Hagren, with defense planned for September 2024.
