Paweł Urbanik

Paweł Urbanik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research focuses on language in interaction, with particular emphasis on grammatical phenomena in conversations, multimodal communication, forensic linguistics, and second language pragmatics.

• Academic affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Department: Department of Language and Literature
• Email: pawel.urbanik@ntnu.no

His research spans conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and comparative grammar. Key areas include:

• Forensic linguistics (police interrogation of suspects)
• Multimodal interaction (physical and material resources)
• Second language pragmatics (Norwegian as L2 in context)
• Gesture-speech synchronization in conversational turns
• Request strategies across Polish and Norwegian
• Material-bodily actions in construction-site communication

Recent publications analyze:

• Manual interventions in construction work
• Communication of legal rights to L2 suspects
• Directive speech acts in multilingual workplaces
• Negation and particles in interrogative requests
• Cultural politeness norms in Polish-Norwegian comparisons

He has contributed to projects like:

• Formidling av rettigheter i politiavhør
• NorPol: Polish L2 communication in Norway
• ADIM: L3 acquisition modeling