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Stellan Petersson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, primarily focusing on semantics and its interplay with context dependence, as well as theories of communication within philosophy and cognitive science. He obtained his PhD in theoretical philosophy in 2019 with a dissertation exploring truth-conditional pragmatics and indexicalism. Petersson has developed formal semantic analyses addressing context-dependent aspects of language, including noun and adjective phrases. His ongoing research includes work on tense and aspect in Swedish languages and lexicography concerning emotive meaning in controversial words. He has been active in the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, teaching subjects such as rhetoric and discourse analysis while also contributing to the department as an environmental sustainability representative.
Administered by the Department of Political Science; focus on International Administration and Global Governance (IAGG).