Exploratory workshops funded by
The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS)
THE RESEARCHERS
HELGA HILMISDÓTTIR (PI)
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Helga Hilmisdóttir is a research associate professor at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 2007 and she subsequently held a position as University Lecturer there from 2008-2017. Her research interest include discourse particles, indexicals, pronouns, Anglicisms and youth language.
MARTINA HUHTAMÄKI
University of Helsinki
Martina Huhtamäki is an associate professor in Scandinavian languages at the University of Helsinki. She received her PhD in 2015 and was after that a post doc-researcher in the research program Interaction and variation in pluricentric languages, which focused on communication patterns of Swedish in Finland and Sweden. Her research interests include prosody in interaction and interaction in preventive health care settings.
SUSANNA KARLSSON
University of Gothenburg
Susanna Karlsson is an associate professor at the Department of Swedish at the University of Gothenburg. She recieved her PhD in 2006 and has since worked at Lund University, University of Potsdam and as a language planner at the Institute for Language and Folklore. Her research interests include pragmatic phrases, interactional grammar and language policy and planning.
ELIZABETH PETERSON
University of Helsinki
Elizabeth Peterson is a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki. She earned her PhD at Indiana University in 2004, after which she held posts at the Center for Applied Linguistics, University of Joensuu, and University of Jyväskylä. Her research interests lie in the general area of sociolinguistics, including language contact, language attitudes, and language discrimination. Her recent book, Making Sense of "Bad English" (Routledge 2020) explores these factors in relation to English as a global language.
MARIE SÖRLIN
University of Uppsala
Bio soon.
HEIDI VEPSÄLÄINEN
University of Helsinki
Heidi Vepsäläinen is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She received her PhD in 2019 and has since worked in a project funded by the Finnish Academy investigating internet trolling. Her research interest include both written and spoken conversation, particles and other pragmatic markers, action formation as well as interaction with and through machines.
MARJA ETELÄMÄKI
University of Oslo
Bio coming soon.
SØREN SANDAGER SØRENSEN
University of Aarhus
Søren is currently a postdoc on the “Grammar in Everday Life” project with DanTIN and Samtalegrammatik.dk, where he will provide theoretical contributions to Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis based on descriptions of Danish grammar. He has an interest in phonetics, prosody and response tokens and studied those in his PhD from 2020, but is also moving towards topics within morphology and syntax. His website can be found here: https://sorensandagersorensen.dk/