Claes Ohlsson

Claes’ research concerns institutional language use in relation to both organizations and individuals and with a theoretical-methodological platform in text and discourse analysis. His area of expertise is language and communication within financial economics and business discourses with two overarching themes. In the field of financial economics, he has investigated and discussed how demands for increased financial knowledge among individuals (i.e.. financial literacy) are manifested in various text genres and as persuasion. Within this theme, he has also studied marketing rhetoric of Swedish banks from a historical perspective. The second research theme is mainly focused on how large corporations use language and communication to show and legitimize different types of responsibility in relation to stakeholders and business goals, e.g., in annual reports or other regulatory texts.

During the period 2022–2025, Claes will work with the research project The Market Language: Studies in the Discourse about Markets from Medieval to Modern Times, which is a multidisciplinary collaboration of researchers in the history of ideas and linguistics from three universities (University of Gothenburg, Linnaeus University and Södertörn University. The project is financed by the Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and is located at the University of Gothenburg. The main goal of the project is to investigate and discuss the use and change of the market concept over time - from the Middle Ages to the present - using computational linguistics methods with a large material of texts from different areas of society.

Claes is also active in an LNU internal network on migration research (under the name Platform Migration 2018–2021) with researchers from several faculties at LNU. He is responsible for the sub-project The self-evident language? Language as a key concept in contemporary integration discourse together with Johanna Salomonsson from the Department of Swedish Language.

Publications in DiVA database

Links: Google Scholar, Academia.edu, Researchgate

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Publications

Selected publications

Ohlsson, C., Wåhlstrand Skärström, V., Björck, H. (2022). The Market as a Concept in Swedish Parliamentary Records from 1867 to 1970 : A Mixed Methods Study. DiPaDA 2022, Digital Parliamentary Data in Action 2022 : Proceedings of the Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2022) Workshop, co-located with 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022), Uppsala, Sweden, March 15, 2022. 22-34.
Ohlsson, C. (2018). Banken, kunden och pengarna : En diskussion av kritikens roll i en historisk undersökning av marknadsföringstexter och -diskurser. Kritiska text- och diskursstudier. Huddinge, Södertörns högskola. 179-199.
Ohlsson, C. (2016). Finansutbildning i marknadens tjänst. Ord och bild. (2). 66-72.
Status: Published
Ohlsson, C. (2012). The Rhetoric of Financial Literacy. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. 24 (1). 55-75.
Status: Published
Ohlsson, C., Tengblad, S. (2010). The Framing of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Globalization of National Business Systems : A Longitudinal Case Study. Journal of Business Ethics. 93 (4). 653-669.
Status: Published

Article in journal (Refereed)

Salomonsson, J., Ohlsson, C. (2019). ”Bussig häst, men... Hoppas det ordnar sig.” : En funktionell textanalys av dressyrprotokoll. HumaNetten. (43). 45-64.
Status: Published

Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)

Ohlsson, C. (2007). Folkets fonder? : En textvetenskaplig studie av det svenska pensionssparandets domesticering. Doctoral Thesis. Göteborg, Göteborgs universitet. 219.

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Ohlsson, C. (2016). Staten och kapitalet? : Att göra människor finanskunniga i dagens samhälle. Vardagslivets finansialisering. Göteborg, Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap. 59-67.
Rahm, H., Ohlsson, C. (2009). Klarspråksarbete, myndigheter och mottagare : Exempel från äldreomsorgen och Malmö stad. Medborgare och myndigheter. Uppsala, FUMS, Institutionen för nordiska språk, Uppsala universitet. 25-42.
Ohlsson, C. (2007). Välgrundade val : Hur informerar PPM om premiepensionen?. Mellan folkbildning och fondrådgivning : Nya perspektiv på pensionssystemet. Stockholm, Institutet för framtidsstudier. 47-65.
De Bakker, F.G.A., Ohlsson, C., Den Hond, F., Turcotte, M., Tengblad, S. (2007). Tracing the evolution of corporate discourse on corporate social responsibility : A longitudinal, lexicological study. Managing Corporate Social Responsibility in Action : Talking, Doing and Measuring. Gower Publishing Ltd.. 53-73.
Tengblad, S., Ohlsson, C. (2006). När VD har ordet : Om förtroendeskapande kommunikation och att vara en etisk företagsledare. Värdet av förtroende. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 360-383.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Ohlsson, C. (2020). Market Language Over Time : Combining Corpus Linguistics and Historical Discourse Analysis in a Study of Market in Swedish Press Texts. Doing Digital Humanities : Concepts, Approaches, Cases. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 199-218.

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Gustafsson, E., Ohlsson, C. (2011). Om sociala medier i marknadsföringens läroböcker. Sociala? Medier? : En antologi om en ny tid. Malmö, Manifesto. 157-169.

Conference paper (Refereed)

Tengblad, S., Ohlsson, C. (2008). Corporate Social Responsibility and the Globalization of Business Systems : The Case of Sweden. The 8th EURAM conference, Ljubljana, May 14-17 2008. 1-35.
Ohlsson, C., Tengblad, S., De Bakker, F., Den Hond, F., Turcotte, M. (2005). Corporate Social Responsibility : A Three Country Comparative Study of the Evolution of a Corporate Discourse Over Time. IABS 2005 Proceedings. 160-165.
Ohlsson, C., Tengblad, S. (2004). Corporate Social Responsibility : The Problem of Securing External Legitimacy in a Globalized World. 20^th EGOS Colloquium July 1-3, 2004 : The Organization as a Set of Dynamic Relationships. Ljubljana University, Slovenia : Sub-theme 18 : Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship and Politics of Stakeholder Influence. 1-24.