Maria Frick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3845161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Frick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Frick |
| SIGNATURE | FRICK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5089-5752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wartime Language Choice Among Ukrainians in Ukraine and Finland
Aims and Objectives: This article examines how Ukrainians in Ukraine and Finland account for continuity and change in their language choices before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The analysis focuses on how interview participants discursively construct continuity, change, obligation, and exception in relation to Ukrainian and Russian. Approach: The study adopts a discourse-pragmatic approach combining stance-taking and…
Ukrainian Refugees’ Stances Towards Russian‐Language Interpretation Services in Finland
This article investigates how Ukrainian migrants and war-displaced persons in Finland experience and evaluate interpreter-mediated encounters in public service settings following the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on 57 open-ended responses from an online sociolinguistic questionnaire conducted between November 2022 and January 2023, the study analyses how the respondents discursively construct language preferences, express …
Ole hyvä (‘please’) + imperative
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 imperative clause (IMP), but in the examples analysed in this article, it is combined with ole hyvä (OH) — ‘please’. In the case of these OH directive constructio…
Ukrainian in Finland
This chapter investigates language use and language attitudes of Ukrainians in Finland in the year 2022. The data come from a survey including 1,615 responses. All of the respondents are first-generation Ukrainians in Finland. The data show that while the respondents are eager to maintain and use Ukrainian in Finland, many encounter obstacles such as the lack of Ukrainian-language classes or teachers in schools, the lack of Ukrainian knowledge am…
Estonian in Finland
Drawing on Finnish statistical data and the results of previous research projects, this article provides a historical overview of the development of the Estonian-speaking population in Finland and describes its past and present sociolinguistic situation
Suržyk as a Transitional Stage from Russian to Ukrainian
This article examines how Ukrainian migrants and war refugees in Finland perceive and use Suržyk, a cluster of intermediate varieties between Ukrainian and Russian, as a transitional stage facilitating the shift from Russian-dominant to Ukrainian-dominant speech. Drawing on 1615 survey responses collected between November 2022 and January 2023, the study reveals that 42 respondents view Suržyk as a bridge that supports the gradual acquisition of …
Autistic children and control children use similar strategies when answering false belief questions
Difficulties in false belief reasoning are associated with autism spectrum. False belief tasks tend to be easy to administer and code, and thus are often used for testing purposes. However, the amount of information that can be gleaned from this type of assessment task goes beyond correct/wrong score attribution. Instead, fine-grained information may be derive from a detailed qualitative analysis of the content of the answers, as well as the stra…
The Uruguayan illustration sector
This article addresses the impact of COVID-19 in the illustration sector in Uruguay, through the survey of available information and the conduction of in-depth interviews with artists and qualified informants. The text is structured in the following sections: background (historical antecedents of the local graphic sector), public policies and spaces of resistance (main policy instruments and social actions affecting this art), the illustration se…
Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North
This open access book sheds light on 21st century multilingual practices and discourses in the Far North of Europe
Embodiment in directive sequences
Aims: This study provides a multimodal conversation analytic account of directive sequences used in the presence of a child aged 1;8-2;4 growing up in an English-dominant environment and acquiring Polish as a heritage language. Design: The video recorded data are drawn from naturally occurring interactions, in which the child is present when one caregiver produces a directive turn (request, proposal, or suggestion) and another one carries it out …
Singing and codeswitching in sequence closings
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 as other accompanying contextualisation cues such as prosodic changes and gestures. The heteroglossic character of these contextualised turns is a means…
Expressionism 'From' Latin America
Considering expressionism as a cultural phenomenon of international scope, we present the milestones in its historiographic approach in Latin America. The different stages of thought are reviewed, describing the proposals of some of its most significant representatives and emphasizing the conceptual changes in terms of the conception of temporal axes, the materiality of artistic discourses and their relationship with the spaces and cultural conte…
International comparisons of school-level geoscience education– the Unesco/Igeo expert opinion survey
An international survey of geoscience education has been carried out jointly by UNESCO and the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO) to address the question of ‘How does school-level Earth science education compare across the globe? The survey gathered data from experts in 51 countries, comprising more than half the global population. Most countries (75%) had national standards covering Earth science but these were not followed o…
Towards a usage-based model of early code-switching
Usage-based studies trace children’s early language back to slot-and-frame patterns which dominate spontaneous language use. We apply the Traceback method to data from three bilingual children with English as one of their languages and Polish, German, or Finnish as the other to examine what these children’s code-switching has in common and how it differs in light of the genealogical distance between the languages used. Their bilingual constructio…
A gateway to complexity
Objectives: This study investigates monolingual and code-mixed utterances in four bilingual children with different language combinations (German–English, English–Polish, Finnish–English, and French–Russian) in terms of utterance lengths (MLUs) and complexities offering a usage-based (UB) explanation based on cognitive mechanisms. Methodology: Utterances from four different child bilingual corpora were extracted and coded for individual monolingu…
Carla Witte, una expresionista alemana en Uruguay
Este trabajo sistematiza la información existente y aporta datos inéditos sobre la vida y la producción de Carla Witte, la artista alemana que vivió en Uruguay entre 1927 y 1943. En el entendido de que fue una de las representantes locales del expresionismo, su biografía es reconstruida para —a partir de allí— abrir nuevas interrogantes sobre la efectiva participación de Uruguay en este movimiento artístico de carácter transnacional
Los salvajes del Sur
Reconociendo el papel de la migración en el proceso de modernización de Uruguay, este artículo identifica las influencias que tuvieron los artistas migrantes durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Basado en información secundaria, rastrea sus permutaciones expresionistas en los campos de arquitectura, danza y teatro, literatura, con especial énfasis en la pintura. Lejos de ser concluyente, el análisis se aborda como un paso exploratorio hacia un …
The emergence of Finnish-Estonian bilingual constructions in two contact settings
In this paper, we investigate the emergence of bilingual constructions in conversational data from two groups of first generation Finns living in Estonia: 1) students and migrant workers who had been living in Estonia 0–17 years at the time the data was collected between 2002 and 2011; and 2) Ingrian Finns, who migrated to Soviet Estonia around World War II and had been living in the country for more than 50 years at the time of recording in the …
Singing in interaction
Drawing on a database of 26 hours of video-recorded Finnish conversations from three different settings – everyday conversations among family and friends, instrumental lessons and church workplace meetings – we consider the ways in which singing can be used as an interactional resource to enact the three basic communicative motives of humans: requesting, informing, and sharing. Singing has the potential to initiate joint activities, which allows …
Bilingual voicing
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
Bilingual voicing
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
Singing in interaction
Drawing on a database of 26 hours of video-recorded Finnish conversations from three different settings – everyday conversations among family and friends, instrumental lessons and church workplace meetings – we consider the ways in which singing can be used as an interactional resource to enact the three basic communicative motives of humans: requesting, informing, and sharing. Singing has the potential to initiate joint activities, which allows …
Autistic children and control children use similar strategies when answering false belief questions
Difficulties in false belief reasoning are associated with autism spectrum. False belief tasks tend to be easy to administer and code, and thus are often used for testing purposes. However, the amount of information that can be gleaned from this type of assessment task goes beyond correct/wrong score attribution. Instead, fine-grained information may be derive from a detailed qualitative analysis of the content of the answers, as well as the stra…
The emergence of Finnish-Estonian bilingual constructions in two contact settings
In this paper, we investigate the emergence of bilingual constructions in conversational data from two groups of first generation Finns living in Estonia: 1) students and migrant workers who had been living in Estonia 0–17 years at the time the data was collected between 2002 and 2011; and 2) Ingrian Finns, who migrated to Soviet Estonia around World War II and had been living in the country for more than 50 years at the time of recording in the …
Bilingual voicing
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
Bilingual voicing
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
Singing in interaction
Drawing on a database of 26 hours of video-recorded Finnish conversations from three different settings – everyday conversations among family and friends, instrumental lessons and church workplace meetings – we consider the ways in which singing can be used as an interactional resource to enact the three basic communicative motives of humans: requesting, informing, and sharing. Singing has the potential to initiate joint activities, which allows …
The emergence of Finnish-Estonian bilingual constructions in two contact settings
In this paper, we investigate the emergence of bilingual constructions in conversational data from two groups of first generation Finns living in Estonia: 1) students and migrant workers who had been living in Estonia 0–17 years at the time the data was collected between 2002 and 2011; and 2) Ingrian Finns, who migrated to Soviet Estonia around World War II and had been living in the country for more than 50 years at the time of recording in the …
Carla Witte, una expresionista alemana en Uruguay
Este trabajo sistematiza la información existente y aporta datos inéditos sobre la vida y la producción de Carla Witte, la artista alemana que vivió en Uruguay entre 1927 y 1943. En el entendido de que fue una de las representantes locales del expresionismo, su biografía es reconstruida para —a partir de allí— abrir nuevas interrogantes sobre la efectiva participación de Uruguay en este movimiento artístico de carácter transnacional
Los salvajes del Sur
Reconociendo el papel de la migración en el proceso de modernización de Uruguay, este artículo identifica las influencias que tuvieron los artistas migrantes durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Basado en información secundaria, rastrea sus permutaciones expresionistas en los campos de arquitectura, danza y teatro, literatura, con especial énfasis en la pintura. Lejos de ser concluyente, el análisis se aborda como un paso exploratorio hacia un …
International comparisons of school-level geoscience education– the Unesco/Igeo expert opinion survey
An international survey of geoscience education has been carried out jointly by UNESCO and the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO) to address the question of ‘How does school-level Earth science education compare across the globe? The survey gathered data from experts in 51 countries, comprising more than half the global population. Most countries (75%) had national standards covering Earth science but these were not followed o…
Towards a usage-based model of early code-switching
Usage-based studies trace children’s early language back to slot-and-frame patterns which dominate spontaneous language use. We apply the Traceback method to data from three bilingual children with English as one of their languages and Polish, German, or Finnish as the other to examine what these children’s code-switching has in common and how it differs in light of the genealogical distance between the languages used. Their bilingual constructio…
A gateway to complexity
Objectives: This study investigates monolingual and code-mixed utterances in four bilingual children with different language combinations (German–English, English–Polish, Finnish–English, and French–Russian) in terms of utterance lengths (MLUs) and complexities offering a usage-based (UB) explanation based on cognitive mechanisms. Methodology: Utterances from four different child bilingual corpora were extracted and coded for individual monolingu…
Singing and codeswitching in sequence closings
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 as other accompanying contextualisation cues such as prosodic changes and gestures. The heteroglossic character of these contextualised turns is a means…
Expressionism 'From' Latin America
Considering expressionism as a cultural phenomenon of international scope, we present the milestones in its historiographic approach in Latin America. The different stages of thought are reviewed, describing the proposals of some of its most significant representatives and emphasizing the conceptual changes in terms of the conception of temporal axes, the materiality of artistic discourses and their relationship with the spaces and cultural conte…
Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North
This open access book sheds light on 21st century multilingual practices and discourses in the Far North of Europe
Embodiment in directive sequences
Aims: This study provides a multimodal conversation analytic account of directive sequences used in the presence of a child aged 1;8-2;4 growing up in an English-dominant environment and acquiring Polish as a heritage language. Design: The video recorded data are drawn from naturally occurring interactions, in which the child is present when one caregiver produces a directive turn (request, proposal, or suggestion) and another one carries it out …
Autistic children and control children use similar strategies when answering false belief questions
Difficulties in false belief reasoning are associated with autism spectrum. False belief tasks tend to be easy to administer and code, and thus are often used for testing purposes. However, the amount of information that can be gleaned from this type of assessment task goes beyond correct/wrong score attribution. Instead, fine-grained information may be derive from a detailed qualitative analysis of the content of the answers, as well as the stra…
The Uruguayan illustration sector
This article addresses the impact of COVID-19 in the illustration sector in Uruguay, through the survey of available information and the conduction of in-depth interviews with artists and qualified informants. The text is structured in the following sections: background (historical antecedents of the local graphic sector), public policies and spaces of resistance (main policy instruments and social actions affecting this art), the illustration se…
Ole hyvä (‘please’) + imperative
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 imperative clause (IMP), but in the examples analysed in this article, it is combined with ole hyvä (OH) — ‘please’. In the case of these OH directive constructio…
Ukrainian in Finland
This chapter investigates language use and language attitudes of Ukrainians in Finland in the year 2022. The data come from a survey including 1,615 responses. All of the respondents are first-generation Ukrainians in Finland. The data show that while the respondents are eager to maintain and use Ukrainian in Finland, many encounter obstacles such as the lack of Ukrainian-language classes or teachers in schools, the lack of Ukrainian knowledge am…
Estonian in Finland
Drawing on Finnish statistical data and the results of previous research projects, this article provides a historical overview of the development of the Estonian-speaking population in Finland and describes its past and present sociolinguistic situation
Suržyk as a Transitional Stage from Russian to Ukrainian
This article examines how Ukrainian migrants and war refugees in Finland perceive and use Suržyk, a cluster of intermediate varieties between Ukrainian and Russian, as a transitional stage facilitating the shift from Russian-dominant to Ukrainian-dominant speech. Drawing on 1615 survey responses collected between November 2022 and January 2023, the study reveals that 42 respondents view Suržyk as a bridge that supports the gradual acquisition of …
Wartime Language Choice Among Ukrainians in Ukraine and Finland
Aims and Objectives: This article examines how Ukrainians in Ukraine and Finland account for continuity and change in their language choices before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The analysis focuses on how interview participants discursively construct continuity, change, obligation, and exception in relation to Ukrainian and Russian. Approach: The study adopts a discourse-pragmatic approach combining stance-taking and…
Ukrainian Refugees’ Stances Towards Russian‐Language Interpretation Services in Finland
This article investigates how Ukrainian migrants and war-displaced persons in Finland experience and evaluate interpreter-mediated encounters in public service settings following the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on 57 open-ended responses from an online sociolinguistic questionnaire conducted between November 2022 and January 2023, the study analyses how the respondents discursively construct language preferences, express …
Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)