Linus Salö

Linus Salö is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University. His work takes a sociolinguistic approach to language practice and policy in Swedish academia, particularly pertaining to issues and phenomena that unfold in the relation between Swedish and English in research and higher education. This endeavor encompasses areas such as English as a medium of instruction in higher education, as well as language use in scientific publishing and other contemporary scientific practices. 

Linus' current project aims to unite strands of research from the history of science, the sociology of science, and the language of science. Adopting this lens, the objective is to bring empirical specificity and an in-depth understanding of "language choice" in the publishing practices of six disciplines, and the way in which this issue is linked to their historical growth and current value economies. From this vantage point, he also attempts to account for foreseeable sociolinguistic effects of ranking regimes and publish or perish ideology, as these fluxes are manifested in changing publishing strategies and habitus across the disciplines.