Pentti Haddington

I am a conversation analyst (CA) and multimodal interaction analyst. My work contributes to the research of talk and multimodal action in face-to-face interaction. It relies on video recordings and ethnographic notes as research materials. The research of the teams and collaborations I have been involved in has contributed to the development and renewal of CA by introducing new and original questions, concepts and methodological solutions to the research of multimodal interaction. It has made impact to the conceptualisation of the relationship between interaction and mobility, complexity and interaction, and it has participated in the rethinking of some of the core concepts in conversation analysis (e.g., sequence organisation, temporality and activity).

The research has introduced new hard-to-access (military interactions) and hard-to-capture video materials (digital and virtual interactions) to the CA community. It has involved the curation of databases and publishing of metadata (e.g., http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:att:f2052df8-7314-4798-b74f-354144e038cb).

The research has been published in international journals and edited volumes that publish research on pragmatics, language use and social interaction:

• Field-weighted citation impact (Conversation Analysis, Resources, Talk-in-interaction): 4.10 (world average: 1.0; Europe’s average: 1.2; the field’s average 1.82).
• top10 citation percentile: 57.9%

Publications also include

• five peer-reviewed books and four journal special issues.
• encyclopaedia and handbook entries
• reports
• publications and white papers for professional communities and

Invited member of the of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (https://www.acadsci.fi/en/)

Past ten years: Nine keynote talks in international conferences and symposia in the past ten years. Member of steering committees in five conferences.