Corpora and corpus linguistics revisited: an interview with Karin Aijmer

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Karin Aijmer is Professor Emerita in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg. She received her PhD in English Linguistics from Stockholm University (1972). She has served on the Scientific Committee of ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). She was a member of the Cambridge Grammar reference panel and a member of the Challenge panel at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to the Social Sciences (CASS) at the University of Lancaster 2012–2017. From 2004–2013 she served as president of the Swedish Society for the Study of English (SWESSE). She has been elected member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (Kungliga Vetenskapsoch Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg) since 1998. She is the editor of the Nordic Journal of English Studies. Her research is mainly concerned with pragmatics and discourse, in particular with epistemic modality and evidentiality, discourse markers, conversational routines and other fixed phrases. She uses corpus-based methods involving both monolingual and multilingual corpora of English and Swedish for data.