Interactional linguistics, embodiment, and dance instruction

Leelo Keevallik works in the field of interactional linguistics and multimodal interaction analysis, exploring the sequentiality of social action and the temporal nature of grammar.

She has published on the development and use of pragmatic particles, features of grammar, such as projection, clause combining, clitics, and reduplication, as well as prosody in interaction. Having re-interpreted the function of pro-forms and deixis in real-time embodied contexts, she is currently looking into practices of coordinating grammar with the body. The focus is on non-lexical vocalizations, such as strain grunts, pain cries, gustatory mms, and sounds deployed by dance instructors or robots.

Research interests veel tants

  • Emergent grammar
  • Interactional linguistics
  • Conversation analysis
  • Multimodality
  • Multisensoriality
  • Non-lexical vocalizations

 

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Academic Degree

  • PhD in Finno-ugric languages, Uppsala University

 

 

 

Collaboration

  • The Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe
  • Center of Excellence in Intersubjectivity, Helsinki University
  • Samtals- och Interaktionsseminariet
  • International Pragmatics Association
  • International Society for Conversation Analysis

Awards

  • 2006 Stiftelsen Eduard Treus Minnesfond, for research on Estonian in Sweden
  • 2005 Oscarspriset, Uppsala University
  • 2004 Benzelius prize, Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten

 

 

Present positions

  • Professor in Language and Culture at Linköping University
  • Pro-head of the Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University

 

 

Supervision of PhD students

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