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Maria Thomasfolk is Senior Lecturer in French and Associate Professor at Uppsala University’s Department of Modern Languages, Romance Languages, where she also serves as Assistant and Deputy Head of Department. She leads seminars and supervises master’s and doctoral students, combining administrative duties with active research and teaching.
Education
- PhD – French linguistics
- Habilitation – Associate Professor (Docent)
Research interests
Thomasfolk’s research lies at the intersection of text linguistics, contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis. She investigates argumentative and concessive discourse markers in French and Swedish, focusing on correlative structures such as d’une part… d’autre part and their Swedish equivalents. Her work also explores scientific discourse, polyphony, and the linguistic marking of authorial responsibility. Employing corpus-based methods, she has built and analysed parallel and comparable corpora including ParaFraS-HumSam and C-ParlEur.
Publication profile
Recent articles (2024) examine representation of other voices in linguistic research articles and authorial objectivity, continuing her long-standing interest in how academic writers manage stance and argumentation. Earlier contributions have addressed the translation of simultaneity and concession markers, the semantic-pragmatics of indefinite pronouns like tout le monde, and the rhetorical construction of “the citizen” in EU parliamentary debates.
Teaching & supervision
Thomasfolk teaches primarily at the undergraduate level in French language proficiency and linguistics. She supervises two doctoral students (main supervisor to one) and runs thesis seminars for C- and D-level students. She is also active in the university’s mentoring network and can offer mentoring in French.
Laboratory & projects
She co-directs the project Discours scientifique, responsabilité et type de texte with Professor Coco Norén, developing a corpus of French and Swedish linguistics journal articles to study how scholars distribute responsibility for claims and conclusions. This resource supports both research and pedagogical initiatives in academic writing.
