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Prof. Dr. Marja-Leena Sorjonen

University of Helsinki
Linguistik
Juni - Juli 2013

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Marja-Leena Sorjonen received her Ph.D. in Applied linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997. She is currently Professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki and Director of the interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction, funded by the Academy of Finland. During 1999-2009 she worked as professor of spoken Finnish and senior researcher at the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, directing its unit of spoken language. Sorjonen's research interests lie generally in the fields of interaction and grammar, institutional interaction and linguistic variation. She has studied for example grammar of responsive actions, repair and directive practices. Many of her studies have dealt with institutional interaction (e.g. doctor-patient interactions, interactions at convenience store and in social insurance office). Sorjonen has discussed interactional practices from typological and comparative perspective. Together with her colleagues, she has also sought for interplay between conversation analytic and sociolinguistic research.

 

Publikationen (Auswahl)

Monographien und Herausgeberschaften

  • in press. Raevaara, Liisa & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Lappalainen, Hanna: Vuorovaikutus Kelan puhelinpalvelussa. [Interaction in social insurance telephone service. Työpapereita 46/2013. Helsinki: Kela. (internet publication, 271 pages).
  • 2012. Peräkylä, Anssi & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena (Eds.): Emotion in interaction. Oxford:
  • Oxford University Press.
  • 2006. Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Raevaara, Liisa (Eds.): Arjen asiointia. Keskusteluja Kelan tiskin äärellä. [Everyday service encounters. Interactions in social insurance offices.] Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.
  • 2001. Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Responding in conversation. A study of response particles in Finnish. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Aufsätze

  • 2011. Haakana, Markku & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Invoking another context: Playfulness in buying lottery tickets at convenience stores. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 5, p. 1288-1302.
  • 2010. Laakso, Minna & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Cut-off or particle—Devices for initiating self-repair in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2010) 1151–1172.
  • 2008. Halonen, Mia & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Using niin-interrogative to treat the prior speaker’s turn as an exaggeration. Discourse Studies 10: 37–53.

Buchbeiträge

  • 2012. Hakulinen, Auli & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Being equivocal. In A. Peräkylä & M-L Sorjonen (Eds.), Emotion in interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 147-173.
  • 2012. Halonen, Mia & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Multifunctionality of interrogatives: asking reasons for and wondering about an action as overdone. In JP de Ruiter (Ed.), Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2011. Hakulinen, Auli & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Ways of agreeing with negative stance taking. In T. Stivers, L. Mondada & J. Steensig (Eds.), The morality of knowledge in conversation, pp. 235–256. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2009. Fox, Barbara & Wouk, Fay & Hayashi, Makoto & Fincke, Steven & Tao, Liang & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Laakso, Minna & Flores Hernandez, Wilfrido: The site of initiation in same turn self repair. In J. Sidnell (Ed.), Conversation analysis. Comparative perspectives, pp. 60–103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2009. Hakulinen, Auli & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Designing utterances for action: Verb repeat responses to assessments in Finnish. In M. Haakana, M. Laakso & J. Lindström (Eds.), Talk in interaction. Comparative dimensions. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, pp. 124–151.
  • 2009. Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Hakulinen, Auli: Alternative responses to assessments. In J. Sidnell (Ed.), Conversation analysis. Comparative perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 280–300.
  • 2009. Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Raevaara, Liisa & Lappalainen, Hanna: Mä otan tän. Käynnin syyn esittämisen tavat kioskilla. [I’ll have this. Ways of presenting one’s reason for the visit at convenience store.] In H. Lappalainen & L. Raevaara (Eds.), Kieli kioskilla. Tutkimuksia kioskiasioinnin rutiineista [Language at kiosk. Studies on routines in convenience store encounters]. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. Pp. 90–119.

Overviews

  • 2012. Lindström, Anna & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Affiliation in conversation. In: J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (Eds.), Handbook on Conversation Analysis. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • 2012. Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Peräkylä, Anssi: Introduction. In A. Peräkylä & M-L Sorjonen (Eds.), Emotion in interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2011. Drew, Paul & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Dialogue in institutional interactions. In T. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction. London: Sage. pp. 191–216.
  • 2007. Kärkkäinen, Elise & Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa: Discourse structure. In T. Shopen (Ed.), Language typology and syntactic description. Second edition. Volume II: Complex constructions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Pp. 301–371.

 

FRIAS-Projekt

Grammar and embodiment: Requesting for a product at convenience store (with Liisa Raevaara)

This project contributes to research on the interplay between verbal design of actions and the concurrent deployment of other semiotic resources when constructing social actions. The project focuses on the verbal design of requests for products such as cigarettes at Finnish convenience stores (kiosks). These are products that the customer needs to request verbally from the cashier. In our prior study we found that the request is overwhelmingly presented with a noun phrase (NP) (c. 80 % or 210 requests; Sorjonen, Raevaara & Lappalainen 2009). The question to be asked is: what are clauses, the clear minority in quantitative terms, used for in making a request? In our study, we explore the temporal emergence of clause in relation to issues such as the place of the participants vis-à-vis the central location of doing the business (desk), their movements and their mutual orientation. The project will provide new information on the impact of contextual factors on the verbal construction of actions, and the kinds of resources that grammatical structures make available in managing for example the timing of actions.

2009. Sorjonen, Marja-Leena & Raevaara, Liisa & Lappalainen, Hanna: Mä otan tän. Käynnin syyn esittämisen tavat kioskilla. [I’ll have this. Ways of presenting one’s reason for the visit at convenience store.] In H. Lappalainen & L. Raevaara (Eds.), Kieli kioskilla. Tutkimuksia kioskiasioinnin rutiineista [Language at kiosk. Studies on routines in convenience store encounters]. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. pp. 90–119.