Anna Vatanen
PhD
Biography
I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the iTask project within the COACT research community. I investigate multiactivity situations in the everyday life of families with small children. I am a linguist and use conversation analytic and interactional linguistic methods in my research. I am interested in the linguistic and bodily practices that people use when interacting with each other, and in the structures of social interaction. The phenomena I have worked on include silent moments in interaction, units of language, turn taking in conversation and the timing of turns, and epistemics in interaction.
Research interests
- Talk, grammar and embodied behavior in social interaction
- Finnish language, Estonian language
- Conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, multimodal interaction analysis
- Video-based research methods
- Comparative research of talk-in-interaction between different languages
Publications
Stevanovic, Melisa, Hakulinen, Auli, & Vatanen, Anna. (Accepted.) Prosody and grammar of other-repetitions in Finnish: Repair initiations, registerings and affectivity. Special issue “Other-repetitions across languages”, ed. by Giovanni Rossi. Language in Society.
Suomalainen, Karita, Vatanen, Anna & Laury, Ritva. (Forthcoming 2019.) The Finnish se että initiated expressions: NPs or not? In Thompson, Sandra & Ono, Tsuyoshi (Eds.), The Structure and Pragmatics of the ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: an Emergent Unit in Interaction. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Vatanen, Anna. (Forthcoming.) The interaction order of silent moments in everyday life: Lapses as joint embodied achievements. In Buchholz, Michael & Dimitrijevic, Aleksandar (Eds.), Silence and silencing in psychoanalysis: Cultural, clinical, and research perspectives. Routledge.
Endo, Tomoko, Vatanen, Anna & Yokomori, Daisuke. 2018. Agreeing in Overlap: A Comparison of Response Practices and Resources for Projection in Finnish, Japanese and Mandarin Talk-in-Interaction. Special issue “Contrastive linguistic research for understanding human culture and society”. The Japanese Journal of Language in Society 21(1), 160–174.
Vatanen, Anna. 2018. Responding in early overlap: Recognitional onsets in assertion sequences. Research on Language and Social Interaction 51(2), 107–126. (https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2018.1413894)
Vatanen, Anna. 2018. Resisting an action in conversation by pointing out epistemic incongruence: Mä tiedän ‘I know’ responses in Finnish. Special issue “Units in responsive turns”, ed. by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Tomoko Endo & Elise Kärkkäinen. Journal of Pragmatics 123, 192–208.
Vatanen, Anna. 2017. Delayed completions of unfinished turns. On the phenomenon and its boundaries. In Laury, Ritva, Etelämäki, Marja & Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (Eds.), Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction. Studia Fennica Linguistica 20, pp. 153–174. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society).
Vatanen, Anna. 2016. Keskustelunanalyyttinen tutkimusprosessi [Conversation Analytic Research Process]. In Lindholm, Camilla & Stevanovic, Melisa (Eds.), Keskustelunanalyysi. Kuinka tutkia sosiaalista toimintaa ja vuorovaikutusta [Conversation Analysis. How to study social action and interaction], pp. 312–330. Tampere: Vastapaino.
Vatanen, Anna. 2014. Responding in overlap. Agency, epistemicity and social action in conversation. Doctoral dissertation. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. (Available in an electronic form via http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-0280-5.)
Vatanen, Anna. 2014. Vastausvuoro päällekkäispuhuntana. Toimijuus, tieto ja sosiaalinen toiminta keskustelussa [Responding in overlap. Agency, epistemicity and social action in conversation]. Lectio praecursoria. Virittäjä, 118 (4).
Härmävaara, Hanna-Ilona, Vatanen, Anna & Frick, Maria 2013. Keskusteluntutkimus ja kieltenvälinen vertailu yhteistyössä [Combining Research on Conversation and Cross-Linguistic Comparison]. In Kolehmainen, Leena, Miestamo, Matti & Nordlund, Taru (Eds.), Kielten vertailun metodiikka [The Methodology of Cross-Linguistic Comparison], pp. 135–167. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Toimituksia 1387. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society).
Vatanen, Anna. 2010. Yhteistyöhakuinen päällekkäispuhunta suomalaisessa ja virolaisessa arkikeskustelussa [Cooperative overlapping talk in Finnish and Estonian everyday conversation]. – Lähivõrdlusi. Lähivertailuja [Close comparisons] 19, 76–94. Tallinn: Eesti rakenduslingvistika ühing.
Previous research projects and communities
Research project "Lapses in interaction and the stereotype of the Silent Finn" (PI, Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2016-2017)
Research project "The question of units in language and interaction" (Postdoctoral researcher, 2014-2016)
Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki
In the media
Lapses in interaction and the stereotype of the Silent Finn:
BBC travel: How the Finnish survive without small talk (17 Oct 2018)
HS Nyt: BBC:n toimittaja perehtyi suomalaiseen small talkin puutteeseen (18 Oct 2018)
Finnish Cultural Foundation Blog: Hiljaiset suomalaiset – totta vai stereotypiaa? (11 Oct 2016)
Responding in overlap:
Yle: Alkoiko joku puhua päälle, vaikket vielä lopettanut? Tutkimus: siihen on syynsä (31 Oct 2014)
Yle Radio 1, Tiedeykkönen: Me puhumme joskus toistemme päälle, miksi? (7 Nov 2014)
Databases
Research groups
- iTask: Linguistic and embodied features of interactional multitasking
- COACT (Complexity of (inter)action and multimodal participation)
Thesis supervisions
Doctoral theses
Co-supervisor of MA Antti Kamunen, "Embodied practices in interactional multitasking"
Co-supervisor of MA Tiina Eilittä, "Multiactivity and attention seeking in adult-child interaction"
Master's theses
Primary supervisor of two MA students
Research visits
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Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sydney
– 30.1.2017 to 30.4.2017
