Conference program

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17

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09.00-09.15
Opening of the conference
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09.15-10.15 Plenary 1
Asta Cekaite: Multisensoriality: Touch, language and body in social interaction
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10.30-11.55 Parallel sessions
SESSION 1
10.30-10.55
Karianne Skovholt, Anne Marie Dalby Landmark, Rein Ove Sikveland, Marit Skarbø Solem,
Elizabeth Stokoe
Who goes first? Calibration work in secondary schools’ grading decision-making
11.00-11.25
Maria Njølstad Vonen, Marit Solem, Karianne Skovholt: How do examiners manage students’
trouble with giving answers in Norwegian secondary school’s test talk?
11.30-11.55
Nigel Musk
Designedly incomplete utterances (DIUs) in digital collaborative EFL writing

SESSION 2
10.30-10.55
Olga Anatoli: Recycling self- and others’ talk: Spontaneous language teaching in a Swedish-English
preschool
11.00-11.25
Sally Wiggins, Jakob Cromdal, Annerose Willemsen: Watch your table manners: Early insights into
the multimodal analyses of preschool lunches in Sweden
11.30-11.55
Pål Aarsand, Helen Melander Bowden: Children talk about mobile phones: Negotiating norms and
rules at school
10.30-11.45 Workshop
Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Søren Sandager Sørensen: Is it possible to
create a grammar of talk-in-interaction based on social action formats? Evidence from a project on
“Grammar in Everyday Life”
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13.00-14.55 Parallel sessions
SESSION 1
13.00-13.25
Carla Jonsson, Mona Blåsjö: Translingual practices behind multilingual and monolingual texts and
writing in the workplace
13.30-13.55
Elina Salomaa, Esa Lehtinen: Multimediality in workplaces: Affordances of paper, post-its and digital
platforms for organizational work
14.00-14.25
Marta Kirilova: We go out and talk to the gentleman: Interpreter roles and alignment in the
courtroom
14.30-14.55
Marjo Savijärvi, Sofie Henricson, Marie Nelson, Anne Mäntynen: What’s okay in academic writing in
Finnish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish? Constructing norms in student-counselor interaction
SESSION 2
13.00-13.25
Ann-Carita Evaldsson: Children’s bonding rituals: Embodied practices of intimacy and friendship
13.30-13.55
Pirkko Raudaskoski: Discourse and interaction studies’ methodological answers to the affect and
material turns
14.00-14.25
Helena Nurmikari: Finnish repair-initiators as hashtags on Twitter
14.30-14.55
Peter Wikström, Erica Sandlund: “Wimpy, childlike & petulant non-apology”: Moral metalanguaging
in mediated discourse

SESSION 3
13.00-13.25
Tim Roberts: Homework in a transnational family: Mobilizing others to resolve language-related
epistemic issues
13.30-13.55
Elin Nilsson: Not ‘downhill from here’? – A couple perspective on dementia-related changes
14.00-14.25
Sabine Jørgensen, Ida Skytte Jakobsen: Negotiating shared care – when professional carers and
parents engage in decision-making regarding children placed in care
14.30-14.55
Fabiola Stein, Helen Melander Bowden: Epistemic relations in scientific encounters: claiming and
attributing expertise or ignorance in knowledge construction activities
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18

09.00-10.00 Plenary 2
Elizabeth Lanza: Multilingual families at the crossroads of private and public discourses
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10.15-12.10 Parallel sessions
SESSION 1
10.15-10.40
Emily Hofstetter: Power screams and outbreaths: Bodily coordination affordances for liminal signs
10.45-11.10
Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter, Agnes Löfgren, Hannah Pelikan, Sally Wiggins: Sounding for
others: Closing the intersubjective distance between interactants
11.15-11.40
Marina Noelia Cantarutti: Adjunct animations in English interaction: the multimodal design of “doing
being others” in responsive position
11.45-12.10
Anna-Kaisa Jokipojah, Niina Lilja: Depictive hand gestures as candidate understandings

SESSION 2
10.15-10.40
Madeleine Wirzén: Demonstrating knowledge and suitability: Adoption applicants’ selfpresentations
as competent future parents in assessment interviews
10.45-11.10
Tiit Hennoste, Andriela Rääbis, Andra Annuka, Piret Kuusk, Kirsi Laanesoo, Andra Rumm:
Minimizing the severity of problem in emergency calls
11.15-11.40
Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, Clara Iversen: Crossing over: When emergency calls turn into peer support
and suicide helpline calls become urgent cases
11.45-12.10
Aija Logren, Sanni Tiitinen: Exploring goal-setting discussions to identify empowering practices in
social employment

SESSION 3
10.15-10.40
Samira Ibnelkaid: Blurred lines between body and artifact: personification and reification
phenomenons in digital interactions
10.45-11.10
Brian Due, Louise Lüchow: Intentional stance as observable order: when blind people adapt to an AI
11.15-11.40
Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen: Organizing the transition from selecting the goods to paying: Comparing
customer practices in online and physical shops
11.45-12.10
Esa Lehtinen, Elina Salomaa: Managing workshop agenda through the publicly observable use of a
mouse

10.15-11.30 Workshop
Saija Merke: Functions of reported speech in practical nursing school study circles
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13.15-15.10 Parallel sessions
SESSION 1
13.15-13.40
Annerose Willemsen, Jakob Cromdal, Mathias Broth: The omnirelevant child: children as a relevant
category in driver training
13.45-14.10
Kristina Edman: Pinpointing children’s involvement in supportive and therapeutic practices
14.15-14.40
Marika Helisten, Maarit Siromaa: Initiating break time encounters at work
14.45-15.10
Hannah Pelikan, Emily Hofstetter: Humans and robots thinking out loud: Thinking as a multimodal
social practice

SESSION 2
13.15-13.40
Federica Previtali: Doing age in organizational inter-actions: an interactional perspective on ageism
13.45-14.10
Marie Flinkfeldt, Sophie Parslow, Elizabeth Stokoe: “And do you have an e-mail address at all?”
Requests designed for different age categories in call-centre interactions
14.15-14.40
Julia Katila, Aija Logren, Miia Marttinen, Johanna Ruusuvuori: Mitigating the role of self in health
behavior: self-externalizing talk in interviews about wellbeing of micro-entrepreneurs
14.45-15.10
Therese Åhlvik: Hoping for a circular economy – the discursive construction of hope in circular
economy meetings

SESSION 3
13.15-13.40
Jan Svennevig: The formulation of directives on signs in public spaces
13.45-14.10
Aki Siegel: English as a lingua franca interaction between Japanese and Swedish speakers
14.15-14.40
Hedda Söderlundh, Linda Kahlin, Leelo Keevallik, Matylda Weidner: Spaces of translanguaging at
multilingual construction sites
14.45-15.10
Anna Vogel: Tension and collapse. The consequences of mismatching arguments belonging to the
social and the discursive practice in a nonprofit organization

13.15-14.30 Workshop
Mari Holmström, Christoph Hottiger: Drinking coffee: An embodied means for signalling availability
in break room conversations
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19

09.00-10.25 Parallel sessions
SESSION 1
09.00-09.25
Iira Rautiainen: Talk and interaction in building and maintaining collaboration in multinational
military observer training
09.30-09.55
Pentti Haddington: “There is something ahead”: First observations of unreported military activity in
UN military observer training
10.00-10.25
Samu Pehkonen: Drunk in crisis: How police officers respond to drunk customers’ turns

SESSION 2
09.00-09.25
Fredrik Rusk, Matilda Stål: Coordinating team play using named locations in a multilingual game
environment – playing eSports in an educational context
09.30-09.55
Johanna Lönngren: Ideological dilemmas in first year student’s positioning: Duties to take
responsibility for one’s own studies, but limited rights to actually do so
10.00-10.25
Karolina Wirdenäs, Kathrin Kaufhold: Constructing knowledge and expertise in transcultural medical
education

09.00-10.15 Workshop
Anna Vatanen, Heidi Spets, Maarit Siromaa, Mirka Rauniomaa, Paul McIlvenny, Tiina Keisanen,
Jacob Davidsen: New methods in video-based qualitative research: remote collaborative analysis of
360° video in virtual reality
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10.45-11.45 Plenary 3
Melisa Stevanovic: Deontic authority as an interactional and “meta interactional” phenomenon
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11:45-12.00
Closing of the conference
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