Camilla Wide
List of John Benjamins publications in which Camilla Wide is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2405-9269
2025 Chapter 7. Complex address practices in Finland-Swedish: Actual and reported use of address in service encounters Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, Fernández-Mallat, Víctor and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 146–170 | Chapter
This chapter compares actual address in service situations with reported use and perceptions of address. We focus on Finland-Swedish and compare it with Sweden-Swedish to highlight typical features of Finland-Swedish address practices. Our data come from two sources: observations of address… read more
2023 Chapter 3. Variations in opening and closing forms in email correspondence in Danish and Swedish It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research, Baumgarten, Nicole and Roel Vismans (eds.), pp. 61–91 | Chapter
In this study, we investigate how differences and similarities in opening and closing greetings in professional emails in academia manifest themselves in Danish and Swedish. Our data consist of a corpus of 595 emails (primary data) and two surveys with 1836 respondents (supportive data). An… read more
2020 Pluricentric languages Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 201–220 | Chapter
2019 Variation in address practices across languages and nations: A comparative study of doctors’ use of address forms in medical consultations in Sweden and Finland Pragmatics 29:4, pp. 595–621 | Article
This article compares variation in the use of address practices across languages (Swedish, Finnish) and national varieties (Sweden Swedish, Finland Swedish). It undertakes quantitative and qualitative analyses of three sets of transcribed medical consultations. In Sweden Swedish, address… read more
2018 Chapter 2. Positioning through address practice in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish service encounters Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 19–49 | Chapter
This chapter investigates social positioning through the use (or non-use) of address pronouns in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish service encounters recorded at theatre and event booking venues in Finland and Sweden. The results demonstrate some compelling variation in address practices which can… read more
2017 Chapter 10. Imperatives in Swedish medical consultations Imperative Turns at Talk: The design of directives in action, Sorjonen, Marja-Leena, Liisa Raevaara and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 299–324 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the use of imperative-formatted directives in Swedish medical consultations. The specific focus of the chapter is the division of labor between straight, non-modulated imperative turns and imperative turns which are modulated with a discourse particle or some other… read more
2009 Interactional construction grammar: Contextual features of determination in dialectal Swedish Contexts and Constructions, Bergs, Alexander and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 111–142 | Article
2005 Tracing the origins of a set of discourse particles: Swedish particles of the type you know The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Corinne Rossari (eds.), pp. 211–236 | Article
This paper investigates the historical origins, both syntactic and functional, of a set of discourse particles commonly used in present-day spoken Swedish: hör du ‘(you) listen’, vet du ‘you know’, ser du ‘you see’, and förstår du ‘you understand’. From a synchronic perspective, the particles seem… read more