Members of the network
Laura Eilola is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University. Her main research interests are everyday-life and classroom second language interaction, the development of interactional competence, and the role of embodied and material resources in social interaction.
Søren Wind Eskildsen is an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark. He spends his time writing his story collaboratively with his wife, on solitary rides on his race bike, or with an IPA alongside good food in the company of great friends. When not engaged in that, he tries to solve the real-world problems of applied linguistics, using too long sentences. When all else fails, he sings.
Jenny Gudmundsen is a PhD researcher at Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at University of Oslo. Her PhD-project deals with how people interact in digital language cafés, arenas where L2 users can practice their new language with L1-speaking volunteers. Using longitudinal Conversation Analysis with a multimodal approach, she investigates how participants develop their interactional competence.
Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara is a postdoctoral researcher in the research project “Globalizing construction work and local language practices” (GLO-LO) at Tampere University. She is interested in multilingual language use and language learning. She works in the field of interactional linguistics and multimodal conversation analysis, and her work often has an ethnographic approach. Her favorite topics to study include language play, translanguaging, and the next interesting thing she finds in the data.
Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University. Her PhD project deals with second language use and learning in interactions in the wild around manual activities of cooking and farming. She is interested in the use of embodied and material resources in interaction, and particularly enthusiastic about the use of gestures and body movements in interaction. When out of office, she likes to dance and analyze her dance teacher’s beautiful gestural and auditory depictions.
Niina Lilja is a university lecturer in Finnish as a second language at Tampere University, and the project leader of the research project “Globalizing construction work and local language practices” (GLO-LO). She works in the field of interactional linguistics and multimodal conversation analysis and is especially interested in role of embodiment and materiality in language use and learning. She is very inspired by construction sites as constantly evolving physical environments and loves to analyze hand gestures and bodily movement in the evolving space.
Arja Piirainen-Marsh is a professor of English at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University os Jyväskylä. Her research deals with multimodal aspects of social interaction and language learning in different sociomaterial environments. Her current work focuses on the coordination of talk, embodied activity and physical action in everyday social interaction and technologically mediated settings.
Joona Poikonen is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University, and a research assistant in the research project “Globalizing construction work and local language practices” (GLO-LO). He is interested in multilingualism, second language learning in the wild, and the role of language in manual work at construction sites. His PhD dissertation deals with the use and learning of Finnish as a second language in the context of vocational education. He works in the field of interactional linguistics and is inspired by the ecological approach to language learning. He is especially interested in analyzing the material ecology and the complex interactional space of the construction works.
Nathalie Schümchen is a postdoctoral researcher in the research project “Globalizing construction work and local language practices” (GLO-LO) at Tampere University. Talking heads used to be her favorite but nowadays she is also interested in social interaction beyond words, including hands and feet as well as (mobilized) objects in people’s material environment. Moving bodies in space concern her both inside and outside of academia – inside of academia from an ethnomethodological point of view, outside in form of physical exercise to keep academics’ minds sharp and focused.
Jan Svennevig is a professor at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder in Norway. His research interests are the establishment of understanding in conversations where one party is a second language user, pragmatic particles in Norwegian and communication in institutional encounters, such as meetings and police investigative interviews. He is the Principal Investigator in the project Communicating rights in police investigative interviews (2018-2021), investigating how police investigators inform suspects with second language background about their rights and a researcher in the project L2 communication among Polish migrants in Norway, where he studies communication in construction sites among other things.
Paweł Urbanik is Associate Professor of Nordic Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His research focuses on the sequential analysis of construction-site interactions, police interviews, second-language interactions, gesture–syntax alignment, and the grammar of directives in various settings. He is currently engaged in three research projects concerning second language acquisition and use.
Johannes Wagner is a professor of Communication at the Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark. He has a long-standing interest in language learning practices in the lifeworld of newcomers to a society. In recent years, he has worked on human social praxis as the nexus of verbal interaction, embodied practices, human senses and tangible objects in the environment. Another interest is the development of tools and corpora of conversation analytic work and the preservation of ethnomethodological archives. In his spare time, he is concerned with the social organization of mobility – Goffman’s behavior in public places 2.0 – today with cars and bikes, scooters, hoverboards, E- bikes, skateboards and pedestrians sharing the available space.