Paweł Urbanik
About
I research on language in interaction. I am mainly interested in grammatical phenomena in conversations (such as negation and particles), social actions (e.g., requests), and the use of gestures and other resources to build meaning in spoken language. I also investigate language-specific features by comparing Norwegian and Polish and examining Norwegian as a second language in interaction. Another area I work in is forensic linguistics, with a focus on police interviews.
I am a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift (NLT).
Research interests:
- Conversation analysis and interactional linguistics (grammar in interaction)
- Multimodality in interaction (bodily and material resources and the synchronization of their use with speech)
- Forensic linguistics (police interviews with suspects)
- Second language pragmatics (Norwegian as a second language in context)
- Comparative grammar and pragmatics (similarities and differences between languages)
- Social cognition and language
Research
Participation in research projects:
- Formidling av rettigheter i politiavhør
- NorPol: Andrespråkskommunikasjon blant polakker i Norge
- Exploring New Materialism for second language learning
- Across-domain Investigations in Multilingualism: Modeling L3 Acquisition in Diverse Settings (ADIM)
- Police investigative interviews in Norwegian as a Second Language – Communicative Challenges and Solutions
- Interaction-Regulating Particles in Scandinavian Languages
Publications
2026
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Pae, Hye K.;
Xia, Detong;
Sun, Hanzhong;
Chen, Yudi;
Yi, Kwangoh;
Song, Minjeong;
Sato, Eriko;
Abasi, Ali R.;
Ballah, Jody;
Babarczy, Anna.
(2026)
Translation and Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test for Global Use.
International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology
Academic article
2025
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Lilja, Niina;
Svennevig, Jan;
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa;
Piirainen-Marsh, Arja;
Eilola, Laura;
Eskildsen, Søren Wind;
Gudmundsen, Jenny;
Härmävaara, Hanna-Ilona;
Poikonen, Joona;
Schümchen, Nathalie.
(2025)
Manual Interventions.
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Academic article
2024
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Svennevig, Jan;
Diepeveen, Aafke;
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2024)
Slik kan etterforskere bli bedre til å formidle rettighetene i avhør.
Politiforum
Professional article
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2024)
Sharing procedural knowledge in manual work environments: Material-bodily actions as explanatory resources in construction-site interactions.
Language & Communication
Academic article
2023
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Svennevig, Jan;
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz;
Diepeveen, Aafke.
(2023)
How police investigators seek to secure that suspects speaking a second language understand their rights in investigative interviews.
Police Practice & Research
Academic article
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Lilja, Niina;
Eskildsen, Søren Wind;
Wagner, Johannes;
Eilola, Laura;
Gudmundsen, Jenny;
Härmävaara, Hanna-Ilona;
Piirainen-Marsh, Arja;
Svennevig, Jan;
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz;
Schümchen, Nathalie.
(2023)
A Nordic model for supporting language learning in everyday contexts.
Fast Track to Vision 2030
Professional article
2022
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Diepeveen, Aafke;
Svennevig, Jan;
Urbanik, Pawel.
(2022)
Suspects’ opportunities to claim their legal rights in police investigative interviews.
International Journal of Speech Language and The Law
Academic article
2021
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2021)
Directives in the construction site: Grammatical design and work phases in second language interactions with crane operators.
Journal of Pragmatics
Academic article
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Urbanik, Pawel;
Pavlenko, Aneta.
(2021)
Securing Understanding in a Second Language: Communication of rights in investigative interviews in the USA and Norway.
Academic chapter
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Urbanik, Pawel;
Svennevig, Jan.
(2021)
Action-Depicting Gestures and Morphosyntax: The Function of Gesture-Speech Alignment in the Conversational Turn.
Frontiers in Psychology
Academic article
2020
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2020)
Getting others to share goods in Polish and Norwegian: Material and moral anchors for request conventions.
Intercultural Pragmatics
Academic article
2019
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz;
Svennevig, Jan.
(2019)
Managing contingencies in requests: The role of negation in Norwegian interrogative directives.
Journal of Pragmatics
Academic article
2018
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2018)
Kan ikke du stå der, da?
En sosiokognitiv analyse av finalpartikkelen
da i interrogative kan-anmodninger.
NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
Academic article
2017
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2017)
Requests in Polish and Norwegian informal conversation: A comparative study of grammatical and pragmatic patterns.
Det humanistiske fakultet
Doctoral thesis
2014
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2014)
Grzeczność kultur, kultury grzeczności. Norweskie akty podziękowania w ujęciu kontrastywnym.
Academic chapter
2013
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2013)
Norwegowie.
Academic chapter
Journal publications
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Pae, Hye K.;
Xia, Detong;
Sun, Hanzhong;
Chen, Yudi;
Yi, Kwangoh;
Song, Minjeong;
Sato, Eriko;
Abasi, Ali R.;
Ballah, Jody;
Babarczy, Anna.
(2026)
Translation and Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test for Global Use.
International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology
Academic article
-
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2020)
Getting others to share goods in Polish and Norwegian: Material and moral anchors for request conventions.
Intercultural Pragmatics
Academic article
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz;
Svennevig, Jan.
(2019)
Managing contingencies in requests: The role of negation in Norwegian interrogative directives.
Journal of Pragmatics
Academic article
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Diepeveen, Aafke;
Svennevig, Jan;
Urbanik, Pawel.
(2022)
Suspects’ opportunities to claim their legal rights in police investigative interviews.
International Journal of Speech Language and The Law
Academic article
-
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2021)
Directives in the construction site: Grammatical design and work phases in second language interactions with crane operators.
Journal of Pragmatics
Academic article
-
Svennevig, Jan;
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz;
Diepeveen, Aafke.
(2023)
How police investigators seek to secure that suspects speaking a second language understand their rights in investigative interviews.
Police Practice & Research
Academic article
-
Lilja, Niina;
Eskildsen, Søren Wind;
Wagner, Johannes;
Eilola, Laura;
Gudmundsen, Jenny;
Härmävaara, Hanna-Ilona;
Piirainen-Marsh, Arja;
Svennevig, Jan;
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz;
Schümchen, Nathalie.
(2023)
A Nordic model for supporting language learning in everyday contexts.
Fast Track to Vision 2030
Professional article
-
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2018)
Kan ikke du stå der, da?
En sosiokognitiv analyse av finalpartikkelen
da i interrogative kan-anmodninger.
NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
Academic article
-
Svennevig, Jan;
Diepeveen, Aafke;
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2024)
Slik kan etterforskere bli bedre til å formidle rettighetene i avhør.
Politiforum
Professional article
-
Urbanik, Pawel;
Svennevig, Jan.
(2021)
Action-Depicting Gestures and Morphosyntax: The Function of Gesture-Speech Alignment in the Conversational Turn.
Frontiers in Psychology
Academic article
-
Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2024)
Sharing procedural knowledge in manual work environments: Material-bodily actions as explanatory resources in construction-site interactions.
Language & Communication
Academic article
-
Lilja, Niina;
Svennevig, Jan;
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa;
Piirainen-Marsh, Arja;
Eilola, Laura;
Eskildsen, Søren Wind;
Gudmundsen, Jenny;
Härmävaara, Hanna-Ilona;
Poikonen, Joona;
Schümchen, Nathalie.
(2025)
Manual Interventions.
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2014)
Grzeczność kultur, kultury grzeczności. Norweskie akty podziękowania w ujęciu kontrastywnym.
Academic chapter
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2013)
Norwegowie.
Academic chapter
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Urbanik, Pawel;
Pavlenko, Aneta.
(2021)
Securing Understanding in a Second Language: Communication of rights in investigative interviews in the USA and Norway.
Academic chapter
Student thesis or dissertation
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Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz.
(2017)
Requests in Polish and Norwegian informal conversation: A comparative study of grammatical and pragmatic patterns.
Det humanistiske fakultet
Doctoral thesis
Teaching
SPRÅK3002 Theories in Linguistics (2025)
Outreach
2026
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Conference lectureWeidner, Matylda; Urbanik, Paweł. (2026) ‚Verbal pointing‘ with Polish o [ʔɔ]. International Conference on Conversation Analysis
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Paweł. (2026) The multimodal organization of resistant actions in police interviews. International Conference on Conversation Analysis
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Paweł; Bersås, Marit Ping. (2026) Andrespråksbrukeres forståelse av juridiske begreper brukt i politiavhør. NORDAND - Konferanse om Nordens språk som andrespråk
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LectureUrbanik, Paweł. (2026) Formidling av rettigheter. Kommunikative utfordringer og løsninger. KREATIV-kurs for politiinstruktører
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LectureUrbanik, Paweł. (2026) Forståelse av rettigheter i avhør med mistenkte barn. Studiesamling: Avhør av barn
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LectureUrbanik, Paweł. (2026) Forståelse i avhør med andrespråksmistenkte. Studium i kulturforståelse (videreutdanning for politietterforskere)
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LectureUrbanik, Paweł. (2026) Avhør med voksne mistenkte – kommunikative utførdringer og løsninger. Studiesamling: Avhør av voksne
2025
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Paweł. (2025) Dealing with suspects’ procedural misunderstandings and non-understandings in police interviews. The 8th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction (NORDISCO)
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Paweł; Weidner, Matylda; Zinken, Jörg. (2025) 'Free infinitives' in German and Polish. The 8th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction (NORDISCO)
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2025) Forståelse i avhør med andrespråksmistenkte. Videreutdanning for politietterforskere
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2025) Rettigheter i politiavhør. Videreutdanningskurs for politiet: avhør med barn og sårbare voksne
2024
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LectureSvennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2024) How doctors formulate requests to their patients. NorPol Closing Conference
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Conference lectureSvennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2024) Manuelle intervensjoner i bygningsarbeid. De norske interaksjonsdagene
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2024) The organization of embodied resistance in object-centered sequences. (Un-)Cooperative Behaviour in Social Interaction
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Lecture
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz; Svennevig, Jan. (2024) Object use in explanation sequences on the construction site. The 4th International Conference on Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2)
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Lecture
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Conference lectureSvennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2024) L2 doctors’ formulation of requests for immediate action during physical examination. The 4th international conference on Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2)
2023
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Conference posterOpsahl, Toril; Garbacz, Piotr; Golden, Anne; Olszewska, Aleksandra Ita; Szymanska, Oliwia; Solarek-Gliniewicz, Magdalena; Svennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2023) L2 Communication in workplace settings. The case of Polish migrants in Norway (NorPol). MultiLing Closing Conference
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2023) Employing bodily and material resources to share procedural knowledge: The sequential and configurational properties of embodied depiction and object use in construction-site interactions. International Conference on Conversation Analysis
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Conference lectureSikveland, Rein Ove; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2023) Exposing actions based on their delivery: How police professionals face efforts to undermine their agenda. International Conference on Conversation Analysis
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2023) Syntactic suspension and the spatio-temporal extension of gesture. Embodied Syntax Network Conference
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Conference lectureOpsahl, Toril; Svennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz; Goncalves, Kellie; Pájaro, Verónica; Arum, Nuranindia Endah. (2023) Multilingualism in the workplace. MultiLing Closing Conference
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Conference lectureDe Korne, Haley; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz; Pavlenko, Aneta; Valen-Sendstad, Ingvild Priyanka Badhwar; Lamb, Gavin Mitchell; Thingnes, Jorunn Simonsen; Pennycook, Alastair; Røyneland, Unn. (2023) Multilingualism, politics, social justice and language activism. MultiLing Closing Conference
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2023) Hva sier byggearbeideren? Norsk og polsk på byggeplassen. Morsmålsdagen 2023
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2023) Språkvitenskapelig forskning på formidling av rettigheter. Tilnærminger og metoder. Seminar for masterstudenter
2022
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Lecture
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel. (2022) The projective role of syntax in the alignment of pre-verbal action-depicting gestures and speech. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel. (2022) When suspects talk when they should not: Early explanations and investigators’ interventions in the initial phase of police interviews in Norway. 4TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORENSIC AND LEGAL LINGUISTICS
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Conference lectureSvennevig, Jan; Diepeveen, Aafke; Urbanik, Pawel. (2022) Securing understanding of the suspect’s rights in police investigative interviews. 4th European Conference of the IAFLL
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2022) Avhør med andrespråksmistenkte. Rettigheter. KREATIV-kurs for politietterforskere
2021
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel. (2021) Å informere mistenkte om deres rettigheter på en forståelig måte. Videreutdanning i avhør av voksne (Politihøgskolen)
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Conference lectureDiepeveen, Aafke; Svennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel. (2021) Suspects’ opportunities to claim their legal rights in police investigative interviews. 17th International Pragmatics Conference
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InterviewUrbanik, Pawel; Opsahl, Toril; Lilleslåtten, Mari. (2021) Polske anleggsarbeidere bruker norsk språk målrettet for å løse oppgaver.
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel. (2021) Å informere mistenkte om deres rettigheter på en forståelig måte. Videreutdanning i avhør av voksne (Politihøgskolen)
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Feature articleGarbacz, Piotr; Golden, Anne; Opsahl, Toril; Solarek-Gliniewicz, Magdalena; Svennevig, Jan; Szymanska, Oliwia; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2021) Hva hemmer og fremmer kommunikasjon mellom nordmenn og polakker?.
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Conference lectureSvennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel. (2021) Comprehension strategies in the communication of rights to L2 suspects in Norwegian investigative interviews. International Pragmatics Conference
2020
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2020) Comprehension strategies in the communication of rights to L2 suspects in Norwegian investigative interviews. Georgetown Roundtable of Linguistics
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Conference lectureSvennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2020) Comprehension strategies in the communication of rights to L2 suspects in Norwegian investigative interviews. Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2020) Hvordan informerer politiet de mistenkte om deres rettigheter og plikter. Foredrag for tolker
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2020) Hvordan informere om rettigheter og plikter på en forståelig måte og når bruke tolk?. KREATIV workshop
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2020) Formidling av rettigheter i politiavhør i Norge. Foredrag for politiinstruktører
2019
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz; Svennevig, Jan. (2019) Directives in the multilingual construction site. Interactional competences and practices in a second language
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Conference lectureSvennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2019) Forståelsesstrategier i politiavhør med mistenkte med andrespråksbakgrunn. OFTI37
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz; Svennevig, Jan. (2019) Directives in the multilingual construction site. International Pragmatic Association Conference
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LectureSvennevig, Jan; Urbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2019) Comprehension strategies in the communication of rights to L2 suspects in Norwegian investigative interviews. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2020 - Multilingualism: Global South and Global North Perspectives – Virtual Event
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LectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2019) Strategies for Securing Comprehension of Rights in Police Investigative Interviews in Norway. Social Justice, Language Diversity, and Globalization
2018
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2018) An alternative means more: The role of conventionalized grammatical variants in requestive directives. 20th International Congress of Linguists
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2018) In/directness, action formation and the grammar of requesting. 8th Intercultural Pragmatics Conference INPRA
2017
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Conference lectureUrbanik, Pawel Kazimierz. (2017) Når grammatikk og kultur gjør forskjell. Bruk av imperative og interrogative anmodninger i norsk og polsk. Møte om norsk språk