People
Niina Lilja
- Professor
- Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358503070589
- niina.lilja@tuni.fi
Responsibilities
PhD, Title of docent (Finnish)
I am interested in the role of bodily and material resources in action formation and ascription. My recent publications address e.g. the role of hand gestures in giving instructions, checking understanding, and securing intersubjectivity in various multilingual interactions.
I am the PI of the Academy of Finland funded project Globalizing construction work and local language practices (GLO-LO) (2020-2024). The project uses multimodal conversation analysis to investigate how co-workers coordinate courses of physical action in consruction work and how they use different languages as well as embodied and material resources in this.
Together with Søren Eskildsen (SDU) and Jan Svennevig (UiA) I lead the NOS-HS funded series of workshops in which we explore the theories of new materialism and post humanism to better understand and address the challenges of the linguistic integration of adult immigrants in Nordic societies.
I am also involved in the research project Embodied Language Learning through the Arts (ELLA) (2021-2024) led by professor Eeva Anttila (The University of Arts Helsinki) and funded by Kone foundation. The multidisciplinary research project focuses on how embodiment, artistic activity and language are intertwined. It develops artistic and pedagogical practices that seek to engage human beings holistically, within their social and material environments. The project maps the impacts of these practices especially within culturally diverse settings.
My previous project ‘Co-designing social interactions in everyday life’ (2017-2020, funded by Emil Aaltonen foundation) analysed how second language users of Finnish deploy linguistic, embodied and material resources to construct meaningful social actions in interactions outside of language classrooms, i.e. ‘in the Wild’, and how they learn the language at the same time.
Member of the ethics committee of the Tampere region (non-medical research)
Member of the Faculty Council (ITC)
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa & Lilja Niina (2022). Depictive hand gestures as candidate understandings. Research in Language and Social Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2022.2067425
Lilja, N. (2022). Multimodal conversation analysis as a method for studying second language use and learning in a naturally occurring interaction. In G. Stam, & K. Urbanski (Eds.), Gesture and multimodality in second language acquisition (pp. 204-228). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100683-9
Jusslin, S., Korpinen, K., Lilja, N., Martin, R., Lehtinen-Schnabel, J., & Anttila, E. (2022). Embodied learning and teaching approaches in language education: A mixed studies review. Educational Research Review, 37, [100480]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2022.100480
Lilja, N., & Piirainen-Marsh, A. (2022). Recipient Design by Gestures: Depictive Gestures Embody Actions in Cooking Instructions. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v5i2.130874
Piirainen-Marsh, A., Lilja, N., & Eskildsen, S. W. (2022). Bodily Practices in Action Formation and Ascription in Multilingual Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v5i2.130866
Lilja, Niina, Laura Eilola, Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja & Terhi Tapaninen (Eds.), Aikuiset maahanmuuttajat arjen vuorovaikutustilanteissa: Suomen kielen oppimisen mahdollisuudet ja mahdottomuudet. Vastapaino. https://vastapaino.fi/sivu/tuote/aikuiset-maahanmuuttajat-arjen-vuorovaikutustilanteissa/3858478
Eilola, Laura & Niina Lilja (2021). The Smartphone as a Personal Cognitive Artifact Supporting Participation in Interaction. The Modern Language Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12697
Lilja, Niina & Arja Piirainen-Marsh (2019). How hand gestures contribute to action ascription. Research on Language and Social Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2019.1657275
Lilja, Niina & Arja Piirainen-Marsh (2019). Connecting the Language Classroom and the Wild: Re-enactments of Language Use Experiences. Applied Linguistics 40 (4), 594–623, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amx045
Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja
- Doctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
- Tampere University
- anna-kaisa.jokipohja@tuni.fi
About me
Doctor of Philosophy (Finnish language, Tampere University 2024), post-doctoral researcher in project Globalizing construction work and local language practices.
I use multimodal conversation analysis to examine language use and learning in manual activity contexts, such as cooking and gardening interactions and construction sites. My research focuses especially on the use of visual bodily resources in maintaining shared understanding (intersubjectivity) and learning a second language.
Field of expertise
Finnish as a second language, multimodal conversation analysis
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa (2024). Kädet, keho, kieli. Yhteisymmärryksen multimodaalinen jäsentyminen ja kielen oppimisen hetket kokkaus- ja viljelyvuorovaikutuksessa. Dissertation. Tampere University.
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa (2023). Toisen kielen käyttäjä oppimistaan ohjaamassa. Projektina suomen kielen oppiminen kotouttavassa kaupunkiviljelytoiminnassa. Puhe ja Kieli 43 (4).
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa (2023). Demonstrating and checking understanding – Bodily-visual resources in action formation and ascription. Journal of Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.018
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa & Lilja, Niina (2022). Depictive hand gestures as candidate understandings. Research on Language and Social Interaction. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/08351813.2022.2067425?needAccess=true
Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa (2022). Kieltä kokkauksen lomassa. Aloittelevien suomen kielen käyttäjien sanastokysymykset. Teoksessa Niina Lilja, Laura Eilola, Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja & Terhi Tapaninen (toim.), Aikuiset maahanmuuttajat arjen vuorovaikutustilanteissa. Suomen kielen oppimisen mahdollisuudet ja mahdottomuudet. Tampere: Vastapaino.
Lilja, Niina & Eilola, Laura & Jokipohja, Anna-Kaisa & Tapaninen, Terhi (Eds.) (2022). Aikuiset maahanmuuttajat arjen vuorovaikutustilanteissa – suomen kielen oppimisen mahdollisuudet ja mahdottomuudet. Tampere: Vastapaino.
Nathalie Schumchen
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358504408265
- nathalie.schumchen@tuni.fi
Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara
- University Lecturer
- Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358505228496
- hanna-ilona.harmavaara@tuni.fi