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Pia Quist

Center director

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

Personal profile

Short presentation

Pia Quist is director of the Center of Excellence Changing Urban and Rural Lives (TRANSITION), Danmarks Grundforskningsfond

Her research interests include:
Multilingualism
Dialects
Language and Gender
Youth and language
Language in the city
Language and social mobility

Research projects:

Speaking Up. Language and Social Mobility 
(2021-2024, The Danish Council for Independent Research for Culture and Communication)

The Sound of Copenhagen
(2019-2023, funded by the VELUX Foundation)

Language, Body and Place in the 21st Century
(2018-2019, The Carlsberg Foundation's 'Semper Ardens' Fellowships within the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Language and place - linguistic variation in country and city in Denmark
(2014-2018, The Danish Council for Independent Research for Culture and Communication) 

Dialect in the Periphery
(2015-2018, VELUX)

Pia Quist disseminates her research as a columnist in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen, in textbooks, and, together with colleagues at the Section of Dialect Research, at www.dialekt.dk 

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Multilingualism
  • Gender and language
  • Youth and language
  • Language and identity
  • Ethnography
  • Community of practice