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CURRICULUM VITAE
Sven Öhman |
- Born in Sundsvall Sweden, June 14, 1936
- Undergraduate studies in classical languages and philosophy at Uppsala and
Stockholm universities 1958 -60
- Research assistant at Speech Transmission Laboratory, Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH), Stockholm 1960 - 1968.
- Member of Technical Staff Bell Telephone Laboratories NJ, USA 1966
- Post graduate fellow at RLE, MIT, USA 1963 - 64
- Tekn dr(DSc) KungligaTekniskaHögskolan KTH, Stockholm 1968
- Professor of Phonetics and responsible for the General Linguistics Program
at Uppsala university since 1969
- Visiting professor at UCLA, Ca. USA 1972 —73
- Fil. Dr h. c. at Uppsala university 1973.
- Professeur associé à l’université de Paris VII 1980 - 81
- Head of the Linguistics Department at Uppsala university 1969 — 1991
- Fellow of KVSA, Uppsala
- Fellow of KHVSf, Uppsala
- Several publications in Speech Acoustics, Phonetics and General
Linguistics
- Head of the cross-disciplinary research projects:
- OUR NOTIONS OF LANGUAGE " Våra begrepp om språk" (VBOS), Supported by
The Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1987 —
1989. And
- LANGUAGE AND HUMAN ACTION "Språk och mänskligt handlande" (SOMH)
Supported by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation 1995 — 1999.
Publications issuing from these projects:
- Sven Öhman "Svindlande Perspektiv. En kritik av populärvetenskapen"
(Dizzying Perspectives. A Critique of Popular Science (in
Swedish), Stockholm 1993.
- Slappt uttal (Sloppy Pronunciation, in Swedish, with CD-rom),
Bokförlaget Nya Doxa, Nora 1998
- S. Stenlund "Language and Philosophical Problems", Routledge 1990.
- S. Stenlund " Philosophical Papers Papers, Uppsala 2000.
- Pär Segerdahl " Language Use A Philosophical Investigation into the
Basic Notions of Pragmatics Uppsala 1993 (abridged version as "Language
Use" Macmillan 1996.
- Pär Segerdahl Språkteorier och språkspel "(Language Theories and
Language Games), Studentlitteratur, Lund 1998.
- Juan Wilhelmi Språk och mänsklig förståelse. En kritisk undersökning av
några samhällsfilosofiska tolkningar av den senare Wittgenstein. ("Language
and Human Understanding. A Critical Insestigation of some Philosophy of
Socilal Science Interpretations of the Later Wittgenstein. Nya Doxa, Nora
1995.
- Sharon Rider Avoiding the Subject PhD Dissertation Thales
Stockholm 1991
Since 1959 I am married with the TV-producer/director Birgitta Öhman (SVT
Stockholm) with whom I have four grown-up children and ten grand children. We
have our home in the Södra Station area in Stockholm (adress: Timmermansgränd
3, S-1118 65 Stockholm)