Iira Rautiainen

Selected publications

Rautiainen, I. (in press). Shared interactional competence and the practical achievement of with: Progressing joint work in crisis management training. In P. Hohaus & V. Stojičić (Eds.) Conflict Resolution: Exploring the Interface of Language and Education. Brill.

Rautiainen, I. & Oittinen, T. (in press). Change in joint coordination of action during radio transmissions in military observer training: Orientation to emerging competence. Research on Language and Social Interaction.

Oittinen, T., & Rautiainen, I. (in press). Instructors’ practices for managing chat-based interaction in a video-mediated crisis management course. In Balaman U., & Oittinen. T. Video-mediated L2 interaction: Conversation analytic research. Routledge.

Haddington, P. Kamunen, A. Oittinen, T., & Rautiainen, I. (in press). The development of a team’s professional vision in UN military observer training: Evidence from interactional history. Research on Language and Social Interaction.

Rautiainen (accepted). A nexus analytical lens in the study of social interaction: Exploring collaborative work in multinational crisis management training. In Dressler, R., Räsänen, E. & Källkvist, M. (eds). Nexus analysis in applied linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton.

Rautiainen, I. (2025). Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training. Language & Communication, 100, 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.007

Puputti, H. & Rautiainen, I. (2025). Negotiating and coordinating multimodal resources to build embodied choreographies in civilian crisis management training. Human Studies, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-025-09805-1

Rautiainen, I., & T. Oittinen. (2024). Negotiating epistemic asymmetries during crisis management exercises: Pre-emptive and corrective practices. Intercultural pragmatics 21(2), 193–226. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2024-2002.

Kamunen, A., & Rautiainen, I. (2024). Missing responses as an interactional warning sign: Miscommunication and divergent temporal prioritisations in moments of decision-making in military observer training. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v7i4.147183

Rautiainen, I., Haddington, P., & Kamunen, A. (2023). Nudging questions as devices for prompting courses of action and negotiating deontic (a)symmetry in UN military observer training. In Eilittä, T. Haddington, P., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (Eds.), Complexity of social interaction: Studies in multimodal conversation analysis. Palgrave Macmillan.

Eilittä, T. Haddington, P., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (2023). Introduction. In Haddington, P., Eilittä, T., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (Eds.) Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies. (pp. 1–18) Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424888-1.

Eilittä, T. Haddington, P., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (2023). On the complexities of interaction: An introduction. In Haddington, P., Eilittä, T. Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (Eds.) Complexity of social interaction: Studies in multimodal conversation analysis. (pp. 1-25). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30727-0_1.

Kamunen, A., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I., & Haddington, P. (2023). Inductive approach in EMCA: The role of accumulated ethnographic knowledge and video-based observations in studying military crisis management training. In Eilittä, T. Haddington, P., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (Eds.) Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies (pp. 153-170), Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424888-11.

Rautiainen, I. (2023). Yhteistyön vahvistamisen ja edistämisen vuorovaikutuskäytänteet monikansallisessa YK:n sotilastarkkailijakoulutuksessa. [Practices of promoting and progressing multinational collaborative work: Interaction in UN military observer training]. Kosmopolis 56(1).

Rautiainen, I. (2022). Practices of promoting and progressing multinational collaborative work: Interaction in UN military observer training [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oulu. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526235035.

Rautiainen, I., Haddington, P., & Kamunen, A. (2022). Local participation framework as a resource among military observer trainees: Interactional episodes between repair initiation and repair solution in critical radio communication. Journal of Pragmatics, 196, 67–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.05.006.

Rautiainen, I. (2021). Talk and Action as Discourse in UN Military Observer Course: Routines and Practices of Navigation, In I. Chiluwa (ed.), Discourse and conflict: Analysing text and talk of conflict, hate and peace-building (pp. 381-412), Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76485-2_14.

Edited volumes

Haddington, P., Eilittä, T., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (Eds.). (2023). Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424888.

Haddington, P., Eilittä, T., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (Eds.). (2023). Complexity of social interaction: Studies in multimodal conversation analysis. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30727-0.

For professional communities

Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I., & Haddington, P. (2024). Why is interaction key in online learning? Initial observations from UNPOSMC blended learning course. FINCENT publication series 1/2024. Helsinki, Puolustusvoimien Kansainvälinen Keskus, Finnish Defence Forces International Centre FINCENT. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-25-3438-8.

Haddington, P., Kamunen, A., Rautiainen, I., & Vikström, V. (2020). Studying language and Talk to Support Action: Interaction at the Core of Efficient Teamwork in UNMEM 2019. – FINCENT publication series 1/2020. Helsinki, Puolustusvoimien Kansainvälinen Keskus, Finnish Defence Forces International Centre FINCENT. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-25-3140-0.

Arffman, T., Rautiainen, I., & Vikström, V. (2019). Diversity, Teamwork and Communication Skills Behind the Success of UNMEM 2/2018. FINCENT Publication Series 2/2019. Helsinki, Puolustusvoimien Kansainvälinen Keskus, Finnish Defence Forces International Centre FINCENT. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-25-3123-3.