Short CV:
Born: 1953, married, one child (Annette, born 1990).
Fields of academic interest:
General: textlinguistics, discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics.
Specific: summarising, information structure, linguistic
polyphony, text typology, genre theory, academic discourse, political discourse.
Projects:
2008–- EURLING - Understanding linguistic complexity in political discourse: interdisciplinary analyses of texts on European integration (head of project)
2005–2008: EURUN - Common European versus national/regional political discourse.
Interdisciplinary comparative analyses of texts on European integration (head of project).
2001– 2005: KIAP - Cultural
Identity in Academic Prose (in Norwegian: Kulturell Identitet i
Akademisk Prosa), (head of project)
1999–2003: Linguistic
and literary polyphony (Nordic project, NOS-H)
1993–96: French reformulation (individual project)
1992 – 1993: A linguistic and textlinguistic study of the «Chairman's
Statement» in English, French and German Annual Reports
(head of project)
Education:
Scholarship at the University of Paris III, 1977–78.
Cand. philol./Master of Arts (French linguistics), University of Bergen
1979.
Dr.art. (French (text)linguistics), University of Trondheim 1989. Doctoral
thesis: La nature du résumé scolaire. Analyse
formelle et informative. (Oslo/Paris 1990)
AFF's course of management for women in academic positions, 1999.
Professional experience:
1982–89: Research assistant and Research fellow (The Research Council
of Norway), University of Trondheim.
1987(autumn): Guest researcher at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (EHESS),
Paris.
1989–95: Associate professor (French linguistics), Stavanger college.
1996–: Professor (French linguistics), University of Bergen.
Selected functions and offices:
Head of the Department of Romance Studies, University of Bergen, 1999–2001.
Member of the Board, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen, 1999–2001.
Member of the Committee for the Humanities, The Research Council of Norway 2001–2003.
Norway's member of the Board, NOS-H (Nordic research cooperation in the humanities) 2001–2003.
Member of the Editorial board of the journals Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique (France), Recherches en rédaction professionnelle (Canada), Scolia (France), LSP & Professional Communication (Denmark), Arena Romanistica (Norway).
Deputy chairman of the board: Stiftelsen UNIFOB 2002–2003.
Deputy chairman of the board: UNIFOB AS 2003–2006.
Member of the Committee for the Humanities, Division for Sciences, The Research Council of Norway 2004–2005.
Head of PhD research school in linguistics and philology, University of Bergen, 2004–
Head of National PhD research school in linguistics and philology, 2006–
Head (preses) of the Society for the Advancement of the sciences and the humanities, Bergen, 2005.
Vice-rector for international relations, University of Bergen, 2005–2009.
Head of jury, Young Professional Company Award, ONS, 2006
Member of Resource Group – International, Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 2007–
Member of international panel for evaluation of linguistic research, Uppsala University, May 2007
Deputy member of Board of Sciences, Research Council of Norway, 2007–2011.
Supervising (master and ph.d):
French linguistics (semantics and pragmatics), general text linguistics, text/discourse analysis, academic discourse, political discourse, genre theory,
text typology, summarizing, linguistic polyphony.
Guest lecturer:
In Norway: Universities of Agder, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim (NTNU) and Tromsø, Oslo University
College, Norwegian School of Economics
and Business Administration (NHH).
Abroad: Amiens, Genève, Grenoble, Metz, Lyon, Nanjing, Nice, Orléans, Paris, Seattle, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Turku, Västerås, Washington D.C., Århus.
Selected publications
Books
Fløttum, K., Jonasson, K., Norén, C. (2007), ON – pronom à facettes. Bruxelles : Duculot-De Boeck.
Fløttum, K. (ed.) 2007. Language and discipline perspectives on academic discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Fløttum, K., T. Dahl & T. Kinn 2006. Academic
Voices – across languages and disciplines. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers.
Nølke, H., Fløttum, K. & C. Norén 2004.
ScaPoLine. La théorie scandinave de la polyphonie linguistique. Paris: Kimé.
Fløttum, K. & F. Rastier (eds.) 2003. Academic discourse.
Multdisciplinary approaches. Oslo: Novus.
Andersen, Ø., Fløttum, K. & T. Kinn (eds.) 2000.
Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Oslo: Novus.
Fløttum, K. 1990. La nature du résumé scolaire.
Analyse formelle et informative. Oslo/Paris: Solum Forlag/Didier
Erudition.
Edited journals
TRIBUNE, Skriftserie for Romansk institutt / Papers from the
Department of Romance studies, University of Bergen: no 12 (2001) and
in cooperation with H.V. Holm: 9 (1999), 11 (2000), 13 (2002).
Akademisk Prosa, Skrifter fra KIAP / Papers from KIAP and related
projects, University of Bergen: 1 ( 2003) and in cooperation with T.
Kinn: 2 (2004).
Articles and other publications (selection 1994-2008)
See also FRIDA publication base:
https://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/frida.woa/wa/fres?action=sok&etternavn=Fl%C3%B8ttum&fornavn=Kjersti&inst=184&visParametre=1&sort=ar&bs=50
2008
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2008.
Doctoral training – supervision – internationalisation. Seminar: Transnational Issues in Mentoring/Supervision in Doctoral Education; University of Washington, Seattle.
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2008.
Profil d'un auteur scientifique coopératif. In Birkelund, Hansen, Norén: L'énonciation dans tous ses états. Bern: Peter Lang, 277-290.
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2008.
Standardisation versus diversification dans les écrits scientifiques : une perspective comparative de langue et de discipline. Conference key note at University Discourses: forms, practices, transformations; Bruxelles.
Fløttum, Kjersti; Gjerstad, Øyvind. 2008.
Voix européennes et voix nationales dans le discours politique de l'Union européenne.
Conférence:
La question polyphonique ou dialogique en sciences du langage. Metz/Luxembourg, Université de Metz et du Luxembourg.
Fløttum, Kjersti; Halvorsen, Tor; Myklebust, Jan Petter; Nyhagen, Atle. 2008.
Internationalising the PhD: a case Study from the University of Bergen.
In: Internationalisation of European Higher Education. An EUA/ACA Handbook. Berlin: Raabe academic publishers, Part D, 1-24.
2007
Engene, Jan Oskar; Fløttum, Kjersti; Kjeldsen, Jens Elmelund; Henjum, Kjetil Berg; Rosland, Sissel; Stenvoll, Dag. 2007.
"Kreativ uklarhet i EU", Bergens Tidende. 21.06.2007.
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2007.
Argumentation through author presence and polyphony in the genre of the research article. Argumentation in (Con)text. University of Bergen, 2007-01-04 - 2007-01-06. Fulltext:https://www.aic.uib.no/program.php
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2007.
En skrivende sosiolog - eksplisitt forsker og implisitt polemiker. In Gåsdal et al. (red.): Makt, mening og struktur. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 25-35.
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2007.
Polyphony in speeches by Tony Blair. Invited paper at 10th International Pragmatics Conference; Göteborg, 2007-07-08 - 2007-07-13.
Gjesdal, Anje Muller; Fløttum, Kjersti. 2007.
Authorial presence in research articles (KIAP project) – the case of the French pronoun ’on’. Invited paper at 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, 2007-07-08 - 2007-07-13.
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2007.
Traces of others in research articles: The citation cluster. In Ahmad, Khurshid and Rogers, Margaret (Eds), Evidence-based LSP. Translation, Text, and Terminology. Bern: Peter Lang, 211-227.
Fløttum, Kjersti; Dahl, Trine; Kinn, Torodd; Gjesdal, Anje Muller; Vold, Eva Thue. 2007.
Cultural Identities and Academic Voices. In Fløttum, Kjersti (Ed), Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 14-39.
2006
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2006. Interrelation de voix internes et externes dans le discours. In Perrin, Laurent (éd.),: Le sens et ses voix. Dialogisme et polyphonie en langue et en discours. Metz: Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, 301-322
Fløttum, Kjersti; Kinn, Torodd; Dahl, Trine. 2006. "We now report on ..." versus "Let us now see how ...": Author roles and interaction with readers in research articles. In: K. Hyland & M. Bondi (eds), Academic discourse across disciplines. Bern: Peter Lang ISBN 3-03911-183-3. p. 203-224
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2006. Medical Research Articles in the Comparative Perspectives of Discipline and Language. In: M. Gotti & F. Salager-Meyer (eds), Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis: Oral and Written Context. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 3-03911-185-X. p. 251-269
Fløttum, K. 2006. En språklig analyse av norsk medisinsk prosa. Tidsskrift for Den norske lægeforening, 126 (1), 65-68.
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2006.The typical research article - does it exist?. In E. Suomela-Salmi (ed), Perspectives inter-culturelles et inter-linguistiques sur le discours académique Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Academic Discourse Volume 1. . Finland : Department of French Studies, University of Turku. ISBN 951-29-3038-2 . p. 16-44
Fløttum, Kjersti 2006. Jeg gleder meg til å se neste utkast!. In: O. Dysthe & A. Samara (red), Forskningsveiledning på master - og doktorgradsnivå. Oslo: Abstrakt forlag. ISBN 82-7935-207-4, p. 325-332
2005
Fløttum, K. 2005. The self and the others – polyphonic visibility in research articles. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15 (1), 29 –44.
Fløttum, K. 2005. MOI et AUTRUI dans le discours scientifique : l’exemple de la négation NE...PAS. J. Bres, P.P. Haillet, S. Mellet, H. Nølke, L. Rosier (Eds.), Dialogisme, polyphonie: approches linguistiques. De Boeck-Duculot, 323-337.
Fløttum, K. 2005. Lingvistiske og diskursive studier i KIAP-korpuset. Om utvikling og bruk av et flerspråklig og flerdisiplinært korpus av vitenskapelige artikler. In: S. Rike (red.), Korpus i forskning og unervisning. Hvor står vi i Norge? Kristiansand: Høgskolen i Agder, Skriftserien nr. 124, 25-51.
Fløttum, K. 2005. Individual linguistic variation and possibilities for academic self-hood? Akademisk Prosa 3, 87–100. Skrifter fra KIAP. Romansk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen.
Fløttum, K. 2005. The typical research article - does it exist?
Plenary lecture at the conference ”Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Academic Discourse”, University of Turku, 20.05.2005.
Kinn, T. & Fløttum, K. 2005. Norsk vitskapleg språkbruk i kontrast til engelsk og fransk.
Paper at ”Det 11. møtet om norsk språk” (MONS 11). Universitetet i Bergen, 25. 11.2005.
2004
Fløttum, K. 2004. La présence de l'auteur dans les articles scientifiques : étude des pronoms je, nous et on. In: A. Auchlin et al. (eds), Structures et discours. Québec: Ed. Nota Bene, 401-406.
Fløttum, K. 2004. Thèmes, topiques et marqueurs de cadres discursifs dans les articles scientifiques français : la présence de personne(s). Scolia (Strasbourg ) 18, 167–202. Abstract.
Fløttum, K. 2004. Polyfonisk interaksjon via IKKE i vitenskapelig diskurs. Rhetorica Scandinavica 31, 23–40.
Fløttum, K. 2004. Om fagtradisjoner, posisjonering og identitet i vitenskapelig skriving. D. F. Simonsen (red.), Språk i kunnskapssamfunnet. Engelsk – elitenes nye latin eller uunnværlig redskap for fri kunnskapsutvikling? Oslo: Gyldendal, 185 – 191.
Fløttum, K. 2004. The expression of “results” in scientific discourse – a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary analysis. Paper given at Societas Linguistica Europaea 37th International Meeting, Kristiansand 29.07 – 01.08.2004.
Fløttum, K. 2004. Den franske vitenskapelige forfatter – je, nous eller on ? TRIBUNE 15, 56–69.
Fløttum, K. 2004. Om formulering av forskningsresultater i vitenskapelige artikler. E. Lambertsson Björk & S. Vesterhus (red.), Kommunikasjon. Halden: Høgskolen i Østfold, 61-76.
Fløttum, K. 2004. Traces of others in research articles: the citation cluster. A. Khurshid & M. Rogers (eds.) New Directions in LSP studies . Proceedings of the 14 th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes. 18 – 22 August 2003, Communication, Culture, Knowledge. ISBN: 1-84469-007-5. Guildford : University of Surrey (UniS), 153-159 (160-166 in pdf-document)
http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/COMPUTING/NEWS/LSP%202003/LSP%20PROCEEDINGS_1.PDF
Fløttum, K. 2004. Enonsiativ teori – et perspektiv for studiet av vitenskapelige tekster. Akademisk Prosa 2, 7 – 28. Skrifter for KIAP. Romansk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen.
Fløttum, K. 2004. Ilots textuels dans Le temps retrouvé de Marcel Proust. In: J. M. Lopez-Munoz, S. Marnette & L. Rosier (eds.), Le discours rapporté dans tous ses états. Paris : L'Harmattan, 121–130.
2003
Fløttum, K. 2003. The French pronoun 'on' in academic discourse – indefinite versus personal.
In: Hajicová, E., Kotešovcová, A., Mírovský, J. (ed.), Proceedings of CIL17, CD-ROM. Matfyzpress, MFF UK. Prague, 2003. ISBN: 80-86732-21-5. (Paper marked: S10_KjerstiFlottum). Abstract.
Fløttum, K. 2003. Polyphony and bibliographical references. K. Fløttum & F. Rastier (Eds.), Academic discourse. Multidisciplinary approaches. Oslo: Novus, 97–-119. Abstract
Fløttum, K. 2003. « JE » et le verbe. TRIBUNE 14, 7–14.
Fløttum, K. 2003. Polyphonie dans les textes scientifiques. Etude de
deux cas français. M. Olsen (Éd.), Polyphonie – linguistique
et littéraire, VII. Roskilde: Samfundslitteratur Roskilde, 111–129.
Fløttum, K. 2003. Om forfatternærvær i vitenskapelige artikler. Rapport
fra Nasjonalt fagråd i romanske språk og litteraturer 2002. Tromsø:
Universitetet i Tromsø, 30–47.
Fløttum, K. 2003. Forskning og formidling. Kronikk i Bergens Tidende
17.09.03 (Forskningsdagene 2003). http://www.bt.no/meninger/article193379.
Fløttum, K. 2003. Personal English, indefinite
French and plural Norwegianscientific authors? Pronominal author manifestation
in research articles. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 21 (1), 21–55.
Abstract
Fløttum, K. 2003. Y a-t-il des identités culturelles
dans le discours scientifique? Revue Estudios de Lengua y Literatura
francesas (Cadiz) 14, 83–93.
Fløttum, K. 2003. Forskerne sier ... Kronikk
i Bergens Tidende 03.04.03 http://www.bt.no/meninger/kronikk/article149215
Fløttum, K. 2003. A propos de QUANT À et EN CE
QUI CONCERNE. B. Combettes, C. Schnedecker, & A. heissen (éds). Ordre
et distinction dans la langue et le discours. Paris: Champion. 185–202.
2002
Fløttum, K. 2002. Corpus description and methodological
design. http://www.hit.uib.no/kiap/om_prosjektet.htm
Breivega, K.R., T. Dahl. & K. Fløttum. 2002.
Traces of self and others in research articles. A comparative pilot
study of English, French and Norwegian research articles in medicine,
economics and linguistics. International Journal of Applied Linguistics.12
(2) 218–239.
Fløttum, K. & Breivega, K. 2002. Cultural identity
in academic prose: national versus discipline-specific. M. Koskela et
al. (Eds), Porta Scientiae II. Lingua specialis. Vaasa: Proceedings
of the University of Vaasa. Reports 96, 533–545.
Fløttum, K. 2002. Polyphonie et typologie revisitées.
M. Olsen (éd), Polyphonie - linguistique et littéraire,
V. Roskilde: Samfundslitteratur Roskilde. 1–38.
Fløttum, K. 2002. La polyphonie dans une
perspective macro-sémantique. Andersen, H.L. & Nølke,
H. (éds.). Macro-syntaxe et macro-sémantique. Berne:
P. Lang. 337–359. Abstract
Fløttum, K. & Norén, C. 2002. Polyphonie – de
l'énoncé au texte. In M. Carel (éd.), Les facettes
du dire. Hommage à Oswald Ducrot. Paris: Kimé. 83–-91.
Fløttum, K. 2002. Fragments guillemetés
dans une perspective polyphonique. Tribune 13. Skriftserie for
Romansk institutt, Université de Bergen, Eds. K. Fløttum
& H. V. Holm. 107–130. (Som prepublikasjon på www.hum.au.dk/romansk/polyfoni)
2001
Fløttum, K. 2001 Kulturelle likheter og
forskjeller i akademisk prosa. TRIBUNE 12 : 27–34.
Fløttum, K. 2001. Etres discursif dans
le résumé scientifique. In H. Kronning et al (eds.), Langage
et référence. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.
161–171.
Fløttum, K. 2001. Le résumé
scientifique – texte monophonique ou polyphonique ? Technostyle
(Sherbrooke), CATTW/ACPRTS 17. 1: 67–86. Abstract
Fløttum, K. 2001. Linguistic and literary
polyphony – some methodological questions. In W. Vagle & K.
Wikberg (eds), New Directions in Nordic Text Linguistics and Discourse
Analysis: Methodological Issues, Oslo: Novus. 113–122.
Fløttum, K. 2001. Le discours rapporté
dans l'editorial. Travaux de linguistique 41:107–115.
2000
Andersen, Ø., Fløttum, K. & T. Kinn (eds.), Menneske, språk og fellesskap.
Festskrift til Kirsti Koch Christensen på 60-årsdagen den 1.desember
2000. Oslo: Novus. 47–52.
Fløttum, K. 2000. Hvem taler i sammendragene
i Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrifts? In Ø. Andersen, K. Fløttum
& T. Kinn (eds.), Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Festskrift
til Kirsti Koch Christensen på 60-årsdagen den 1.desember
2000. Oslo: Novus. 47–52.
Fløttum, K. 2000. De la phrase au texte
: un pas en arrière ou une perspective prometteuse pour la linguistique
textuelle ? In A. Englebert et al. (éds), Sens et fonctions,
Tübingen : Max Niemeyer, Vol.VII: 217–222.
Fløttum, K. 2000. Note sur la problématique
des niveaux de l'analyse polyphonique – de la phrase au texte.
In M. Olsen (éd), Polyphonie – linguistique et littéraire,
no.II. Roskilde: RUC. 19–32.
Selection of publications previous to 2000:
Fløttum, K. 1999 QUANT À : thématisateur
et focalisateur. In C. Guimier (éd.), La thématisation
dans les langues. Bern: P.Lang. 135–149.
Fløttum, K. 1999: Typologie textuelle
et polyphonie : quelques questions. TRIBUNE 9. University of
Bergen: Department of Romance studies. 81–96.
Fløttum, K. 1999. Linguistic polyphony
– an introduction and some applications. In Olga Dysthe (ed.),
The Dialogical Perspective and Bakhtine. PLF Report 2/99, University
of Bergen. 100–111.
Fløttum, K. 1998. Cohérence textuelle
et polyphonie. In B. Caron (éd.), Actes du 16e Congrès
International des Linguistes. Oxford: Elsevier Sciences (CD-ROM)
Fløttum, K. 1998. Le Mot du P.D.G. –
descriptif ou polémique ? In Y.Gambier (éd.), Discours
Professionnels en français. Bern: P.Lang. 105–122.
Fløttum, K. 1996. Written reformulation
in a modular approach. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
6. 1: 65–79.
Fløttum, K. 1995. DIRE ET REDIRE. La
reformulation introduite par «c'est-à-dire».
Stavanger: Høgskolen i Stavanger (Stavanger college), Faculty
of the Humanities.
Fløttum, K. 1994. In cooperation with
I.B.Hemmingsen & U.P.Pereira: Readability in English, French and
German «Chairman's Statement». In M. Brekke et al. Applications
and implications of current LSP Research, Vol.II. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
729–737.
Fløttum, K. 1994. A propos de c'est-à-dire
et ses correspondants norvégiens. CAHIERS DE LINGUISTIQUE
FRANÇAISE 15: 109–130.
