Katariina Harjunpää

University of Helsinki | HY

This paper explores the division of labor between particle and repetitional responses to polar questions in Brazilian Portuguese. We examine a response form that occurs both as a particle and as a verb repeat – the é-response – and compare its uses to repeat responses consisting of elements other than é. Freestanding and expanded responses are anal...

Using multimodal conversation analysis, we investigate how novices learning the “inner body” acting technique in the context of a community theater project share their experiences of the bodily exercises through verbal and embodied conduct. We focus on how verbal description and bodily enactment of the experience mutually elaborate each other, and...

Previous studies have identified recurrent prosodic and lexical features in the way humans talk to pets, including high pitch and repetition. This study focuses on how talking to pets, and recurrent ways of designing that talk, emerge in authentic interactions. Conversation analysis and interactional linguistics are employed to explore vocal exchan...

This collection of articles sheds light on the role of human language in interspecies interaction. The book shows that language is not necessarily what separates us from other creatures. It can also be seen as yet another dimension of human existence that is deeply rooted in our shared history and everyday life with other living beings. This volume...

This chapter examines multilingual interactions where bilingual participants engage in advancing mutual understanding between other participants by language brokering (e.g. Bolden 2012) requests and offers from Finnish to Brazilian Portuguese. Brokering turns involve either (i) declarative statements regarding the prior speaker’s volition towards t...

In a multilingual situation where some participants do not speak or understand one of the used languages, the participants need to balance between the language choice and the restrictions it creates for opportunities to participate. In this conversation analytic study, I examine how participants manage differentiated possibilities of participation...

This chapter investigates phone calls to a health helpline in Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on how call-takers employ OKAY as a resource in managing the participants’ mutual alignment and the progression of activities during the calls. Call-takers make use of OKAY in transitioning between main and subsidiary actions and activities and in eliciting...

Using video-recordings from one day of a theater project for young adults, this paper investigates how the meaning of novel verbal expressions is interactionally constituted and elaborated over the interactional history of a series of activities. We examine how the theater director introduces and instructs the group in the Chekhovian technique of a...

(The article is accessible via the doi link of the whole book, see "Kieli ja eläin" in the list of publications.)

Introduction to conversation analysis and interactional linguistics (in Finnish)

Paneudumme tässä artikkelissa keskustelunanalyyttiseen litterointiin. Aluksi erittelemme keskustelunanalyysin teoreettista näkökulmaa ja käsitteellisiä lähtökohtia sekä näiden yhteyttä tutkimusaineiston esittämiseen litteraattina. Tämän jälkeen keskitymme artikkelissa keskustelunanalyysin saralla suhteellisen tuoreeseen käytäntöön, vuorovaikutuksen...

How do people answer polar questions? In this fourteen-language study of answers to questions in conversation, we compare the two main strategies; first, interjection-type answers such as uh-huh (or equivalents yes , mm , head nods, etc.), and second, repetition-type answers that repeat some or all of the question. We find that all languages offer...

This article studies openings of service encounters in food shops. Based on video data in Catalan, Swiss German, Finland Swedish, and Finnish, it contributes to the general understanding of openings of face-to-face encounters by highlighting the systematic multimodal and sequential organization of sighting, gazing, greeting, walking, and moving int...

Katariina Harjunpään suomen kielen alaan kuuluva väitöskirja tarkastettiin Helsingin yliopistossa 29. toukokuuta 2017. Vastaväittäjänä toimi professori Peter Auer Freiburgin yliopistosta ja kustoksena professori Marja-Leena Sorjonen. Harjunpää, Katariina: Translatory practices in everyday conversation. Bilingual mediating in Finnish–Brazilian Portu...

This thesis examines the interactive organization of bilingual mediating in everyday conversations among Finnish and Brazilian Portuguese speakers. The study focuses on how participants who know both of these languages relay parts of the ongoing conversation for their co-participants in the other language, and thereby facilitate their understanding...

One of the most studied forms of multilingual language use is code-switching, the use of more than one language within a speech exchange. Some forms of code-switching may also be regarded as instances of translation, but the relation between these notions in studies of multilingual discourse remains underspecified. The present article examines the...