ABOUT ME

​My research focuses on sociolinguistics and socioonomastics - on how we use language and how we talk about and label people and phenomena. Language contains information about who we are, who we want to be, and the time and society we live in. I am interested in the ways in which language reflect us as humans - and are also used to build narratives about ourselves.​

 

Currently, I am working on the Labels Project, which focuses on labels used for minority identities and conditions in a Danish context. The project is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.  

 

Previously, ​I have worked on the Surname Project, focusing on surname choices and gender roles in Danish families today. This project was also supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.​

 

In my PhD project, I studied which factors are important for parents in Denmark when naming their children as well as the degree of social differences in name choices. 

 

I am a Postdoc at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen and can be reached at kkb@hum.ku.dk.​