Camilla
Wide
Professor, Scandinavian Languages
FT (PhD)
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Areas of expertise
Scandinavian Languages (Swedish, Finland Swedish, Icelandic)
Spoken Language
Variation
Interactional Linguistics
Institutional Discourse
Construction Grammar, Variational Pragmatics
Dialectology
Computer-mediated Communication
Biography
Camilla Wide has been Professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Turku since 2010. Before that she held a position as senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki (2006–2009), where she completed her PhD in 2003 and her MA studies in 1994. Camilla Wide also has a B.Phil.Isl.-degree from the University of Iceland (1993), where she studied in 1991–1993, and an honorary High school diploma from Clovis West High School (1985), where she was an exchange student in 1984–1985.
In 2003–2006 Camilla Wide coordinated a research project at the Society for Swedish literature in Finland and in 2006–2009 she had funding for a post doc-project from the Academy of Finland. She has participated in several Scandinavian research projects and networks (NORMS, ScanDiaSyn, N'CLAV). At the moment she is the leader of the Turku part of a large binational research program financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond in Sweden (2013–2020).
Camilla Wide is the Deputy chairman of the Scholarly board at the Society for Swedish Literature in Finland since 2017 and the Chairman of the Linguistics board since 2008. She is also member of the board of the Federation of Scholarly Societies in Finland (2018–2020) and the linguistics panel at Publication Forum.
In 2003–2006 Camilla Wide coordinated a research project at the Society for Swedish literature in Finland and in 2006–2009 she had funding for a post doc-project from the Academy of Finland. She has participated in several Scandinavian research projects and networks (NORMS, ScanDiaSyn, N'CLAV). At the moment she is the leader of the Turku part of a large binational research program financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond in Sweden (2013–2020).
Camilla Wide is the Deputy chairman of the Scholarly board at the Society for Swedish Literature in Finland since 2017 and the Chairman of the Linguistics board since 2008. She is also member of the board of the Federation of Scholarly Societies in Finland (2018–2020) and the linguistics panel at Publication Forum.
Teaching
Finland Swedish; Spoken language; Interactional linguistics; Grammar; Methodology; Supervision
Research
Camilla Wide's research interests cover different aspects of spoken language, grammar and discourse. During the last few years she has been focusing on pragmatic routines, such as address practices. She is the co-editor of Address Practice as Social Action (Norrby & Wide 2015).
On-going projects:
Camilla Wide also has expertise in construction grammar, dialect syntax and historical linguistics. She is the co-editor of the volumes Constructions in Finland-Swedish Syntax (Wide & Lyngfelt 2009, in Swedish), Language in History – History in Language (Lehti-Eklund, Wide, Tiisala & Lamberg 2009, in Swedish), Nordic Languages and Linguistic Typology (Eriksen & Wide 2011) and Swedish Constructions (Lyngfelt & Wide 2014).
On-going projects:
- Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages - Communicative Patterns in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish (IVIP), research program financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond 2013–2020 (Stockholm, Gothenburg, Turku, Helsinki)
- Language, grammar and dementia, collaboration together with Camilla Lindholm (University of Helsinki).
- E-mail messages written in Danish and Swedish, collaboration with Eva Skafte Jensen, Tina Thode Hougaard, Marianne Rathje, Jonathan White (From Nordic to Global contexts: Digital data, methods and analysis (SoNoGlo; NOS-HS 2016–2018)
- Insubordination (that-clauses in Swedish, Merzlufft & Wide 2013, Wide 2014)
Camilla Wide also has expertise in construction grammar, dialect syntax and historical linguistics. She is the co-editor of the volumes Constructions in Finland-Swedish Syntax (Wide & Lyngfelt 2009, in Swedish), Language in History – History in Language (Lehti-Eklund, Wide, Tiisala & Lamberg 2009, in Swedish), Nordic Languages and Linguistic Typology (Eriksen & Wide 2011) and Swedish Constructions (Lyngfelt & Wide 2014).
Publications
Task-Completing Assessments in Service Encounters (2019)
Research on Language and Social Interaction
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Betydelseskapande i tal. Processtyper i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska servicesamtal (2019)
Svenskans Beskrivning
(A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)
Self-directed Speech and Dialogue in Dementia Care – the Potential of Co-participants’ Contributions (2019)
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Frasformade instruktioner med uppföljningar under personlig träning (2019)
Sprak Och Stil: Tidskrift for Svensk Sprakforskning
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
När det privata blir offentligt. Referens till icke-närvarande familjemedlemmar i servicesamtal (2019)
Svenskans Beskrivning
(A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)
Formelartade och mer schematiska konstruktioner hos personer med demens (2019)
Svenskans Beskrivning
(A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)
Variation in address practices across languages and nations. A comparative study of doctors’ use of address forms in medical consultations in Sweden and Finland (2019)
Pragmatics
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Humanisternas digitala revolution (2018)
(E1 Yleistajuinen artikkeli, sanomalehtiartikkeli)Greetings as social action in Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish service encounters – a pluricentric perspective (2018)
Intercultural Pragmatics
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)