Plenaries

Nordisco 2025 Plenaries

We have invited the three plenary speakers with experience from different analytic approaches within discourse and interaction research. We have asked them to address methodological and/or ethical challenges they (and their team) encounter in their research, and how they address these challenges.

Our aim is to highlight the breadth of analytic work within discourse and interaction studies and offer closer insight into different analytic frameworks.

Pentti Haddington

Pentti Haddington

University of Oulu, Finland

Pentti Haddington photo Pentti Haddington is Professor of English Language at the University of Oulu, Finland. He uses video methods and conversation analysis to study talk and multimodal conduct in a range of different real-life and real-time social interactions. Together with his research team, his current interests concern interaction in multinational crisis management training, technology-created asymmetry in real-time digital interactions, and multiactivity. The research is done in two projects: Action and Intersubjectivity in the Digital Age (AIDA) and Talk and Interaction in Multinational Crisis Management Training (PeaceTalk). The team has recently co-edited two books, Complexity of Interaction (Palgrave Macmillan) and Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion (Routledge). The books’ chapters explore ways in which people interact in complex and multi-layered situations and what methodological questions and challenges are involved in studying those contexts.

 

Jakob Steensig

Jakob Steensig

Aarhus University, Denmark

Jakob Steensig photo Jakob Steensig is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Aarhus University, Denmark. His main focus these days is on the grammar of Danish talk-in-interaction. He has initiated the webpage samtalegrammatik.dk, through which a research group is developing a comprehensive grammar of Danish talk-in-interaction. He was the principal investigator of the research project Grammar in Everyday Life (2019-2023), which sought to make grammatical descriptions on the basis of thorough analyses of actions in everyday interaction, and he is co-editor of the volume Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-interaction published by Benjamins.

 

Zoe Nikolaidou

Zoe Nikolaidou

Södertörn University, Sweden

Zoe Nikolaidou photo Zoe Nikolaidou is Associate Professor in Swedish at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on language in migration contexts, tracing how discourse, literacy and interaction organize everyday life and institutional access across education, workplaces, healthcare and public authorities. Using linguistic ethnography and grounded in the sociolinguistics of globalization, she explores how texts and talk shape identities in multilingual settings. Current projects examine heritage language education policies and practices in Sweden, migrants’ narratives across the Swedish asylum process and an interdisciplinary study of linguistic justice in Nordic welfare institutions, which investigates how linguistic asymmetries affect access to social services for migrant families and older migrants. She invites dialogue on language and migration studies, multilingualism, and questions of reflexivity in linguistic ethnography.

 

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Organisers
NTNU Centre for Academic and professional Communication NTNU Department of Education and Lifelong Learning