Linus Salö

Scholar of the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. He is currently Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University.

Broadly, his research interests include multilingualism in society, language policy and language ideologies. Examples of recent knowledge interests are Sweden’s national minority languages, mother tongue instruction and assimilatory language policies historically directed against the Meänkieli speaking linguistic minority in the Swedish far-north. Another salient research interest is science per se. Salö has conducted research on the sociolinguistics, sociology and history of science. His recent work has dealt with science–society interaction, with an eye toward foregrounding the societal value and knowledge effects of the human sciences in Sweden. Salö is affiliated with research environments at Uppsala University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Since 2020, he is Stockholm University’s representative in the think tank Humtank.

Linus Salö
2022-09-23