School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

Nate Young, BA/BS (North Carolina); MA (Stockholm)

Nate

Research - PhD

Email: nathan.j.young@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://www.nateyoung.se

Profile

My dissertation project is on sociophonetic meaning, variation and change in Stockholm Swedish and how this variation is induced, maintained, and framed by late-modern social forces. These include migration, racialization and ethnic boundary-making as well as consumption, habitus, and taste.

Thesis title: Style and stratification in late-modern Stockholm

Supervisors: Devyani Sharma and Erez Levon

Research

Research Interests:

Intersection of language, social class, and ethnicity in Scandinavia