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Bertil Malmberg, first chair of phonetics in Sweden - peer evaluations

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Author

  • Paul Touati

Editor

  • Suzanne Scötz
  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis

Summary, in English

Following a royal act, a new academic discipline, Phonetics, was officially given birth in 1947. However, it was not until November 1950 that, at Lund University, Bertil Malmberg was appointed to the first Chair of Phonetics in Sweden.

Four Scandinavian experts were chosen to evaluate Malmberg’s scientific competence. The peers produced four evaluations, which constitute the central corpus for the present study. In order to analyse these evaluations, I will make use of a hermeneutic approach combining three ways of interpretive positioning - three stances. The first stance fits into the field of the history of science. The second stance concerns the rhetorical and textual aspects of the peer evaluations. The last stance is more epistemological in character. It mainly concerns the relationship between scientific knowledge and the definition of an academic discipline.

Department/s

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

107-112

Publication/Series

Working Papers

Volume

54

Issue

Proceedings from Fonetik 2010

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Lund University

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Bertil Malmberg
  • phonetics
  • peer evaluations

Conference name

Fonetik 2010

Conference date

2010-06-02 - 2010-06-04

Conference place

Lund, Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0280-526X