Maria Frick
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Frick is involved.
Articles
2025 Ole hyvä (‘please’) + imperative: A multimodal analysis of Finnish police directive turns Instructing Bodies, Keevallik, Leelo, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström (eds.), pp. 99–126 | Article
In this article we conduct a multimodal conversation analysis of the use of OH directive constructions where police officers instruct citizens to step into a police van as the final phase of an apprehension. To perform the task, officers typically formulate a directive turn that uses an… read more
2013 Singing and codeswitching in sequence closings Pragmatics 23:2, pp. 243–273 | Article
Turns in interaction that initiate closure of expanded sequences are often summaries, accounts and assessments of the preceding talk. Sometimes these turns are produced by means that can be described as heteroglossic. This paper investigates singing and codeswitching in sequence closures, as well… read more