Florence Oloff
PhD
Assistant Professor
Multimodal Interaction and Discourse
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in Multimodal Interaction and Discourse (part of the profiling area “Ubiquitous wireless sensor systems” of the University of Oulu). Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, I am interested in the study of language and social interaction in mundane as well as professional settings in various languages. Among other things, I have been working on embodied practices related to turn-taking, simultaneous talk and joint utterance formulation, multilingual practices in professional settings, and object use and space in social interaction. I am currently developing a research project on the use of mobile devices (e.g. smartphones) in face-to-face interaction.
Research interests
- Conversation analysis
- Interactional linguistics
- Video data and multimodal analysis
- Fundamental social practices (e.g. turn-taking, simultaneous talk, response tokens, embodied responses)
- Spoken Czech, French, German
- Cross-linguistic comparison
- Technology use in face-to-face interaction
- Multilingual encounters
Research funding
- Smart Communication: The situated practices of mobile technology and digital literacies (Academy of Finland, Academy Project funding for early-career researchers, 2019-2023)
- Smart Communication: The situated practices of mobile technology and lifelong digital literacies (Emerging Project Eudaimonia Institute, University of Oulu, 2018-2022)
- Smartphones, smart communication: Mobile devices as objects in social interaction (Fellowship at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, 2017)
- The epistemics of grammar: A comparative study of co-constructions in Czech, French, and German (Swiss National Science Foundation, Ambizione Grant 148146, University of Zurich, 2014-2016)
Selected publications
- Oloff, F. (2019). Smartphones, social skills and smombies: mobile device use in everyday communication. Blog "Science with Arctic Attitude", University of Oulu. Published 09.05.2019.
- Oloff, F. (2019). Das Smartphone als soziales Objekt: Eine multimodale Analyse von initialen Zeigesequenzen in Alltagsgesprächen. In: Marx, K.; Schmidt, A. (eds.). Interaktion und Medien. Interaktionsanalytische Zugänge zu medienvermittelter Kommunikation. Heidelberg, Winter Verlag: 191-218.
- Ursi, B.; Etienne, C.; Oloff, F.; Mondada, L.; Traverso, V. (2018). Diversité des répétitions et des reformulations dans les interactions orales: Défis analytiques et conception d’un outil de détection automatique. Langages 212 (4/2018): 87-104, Armand Colin
- König, K.; Oloff, F. (2018). Ansätze zu einer multimodalen Erzählanalyse. Einführung in das Themenheft. Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 19: 207-241.
- Oloff, F.; König, K. (2018). Zur Theatralität und Multimodalität des Erzählens in der Fernseh-Unterhaltung. Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 19: 346-386.
- Oloff, F. (2018). Revisiting delayed completions: the retrospective management of co-participant action. In: Deppermann, A.; Streeck, J. (eds.), Time in Embodied Interaction. Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources. Amsterdam, John Benjamins: 123-160.
- Oloff, F.; Havlík, M. (2018). An initial description of syntactic extensions in spoken Czech. Pragmatics 28(3): 361-390.
- König, K.; Oloff, F. (2018). Die Multimodalität alltagspraktischen Erzählens [The multimodality of everyday storytellings]. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41244-018-0093-7
- Oloff, F. (2018). “Sorry?” / “Como?” / “Was?” - Open class and embodied repair initiators in international workplace interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 126: 29-51.
- Oloff, F. (2017). Genau als redebeitragsinterne, responsive, sequenzschließende oder sequenzstrukturierende Bestätigungspartikel im Gespräch [German „genau“ as an intra-turn, responsive, sequence-closing or sequence-structuring confirming particle in conversation]. In: Blühdorn, H.; Deppermann, A.; Helmer, H.; Spranz-Fogasy, T. (eds.), Diskursmarker im Deutschen. Reflexionen und Analysen. Göttingen, Verlag für Gesprächsforschung: 207-232.
- Mondada, L., Oloff, F. (2016). Im Radiostudio arbeiten: Vielgestaltige Handlungen in einem flexibel architekturierten Raum [Working in a radio studio: polymorph actions in a flexibly architectured space]. In: H. Hausendorf, W. Kesselheim & R. Schmitt (eds.), Interaktionsarchitektur, Sozialtopographie und Interaktionsraum. Tübingen, Narr: 361-404.
- Oloff, F. (2014). L'évaluation des complétions collaboratives: analyse séquentielle et multimodale de tours de parole co-construits [Assessing pre-emptive completions: sequential and multimodal analysis of jointly formulated utterances]. SHS Web of Conferences, Volume 8, 2014, 4e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, 2125-2145.
- Oloff, F. (2013). Embodied withdrawal after overlap resolution. Journal of Pragmatics (special issue on "Multimodal Interaction") 46: 139-156.
- Mondada, L.; Oloff, F. (2011). Gesture in overlap: The situated establishment of speakership. In: Stam, G.; Ishino, M. (eds.), Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture. Amsterdam, John Benjamins: 321-338.
Databases
Social media
Professional and community activities
- Member of the advisory board of the German Association for Applied Linguistics (GAL e.V.), section leader (with O. Ehmer, Freiburg) "Language and Social Interaction", https://gal-ev.de/sektionen/gespraechsforschung/
- Member of the DFG network "Interactional Linguistics", https://interactional-linguistics.org
- Member of the international research group "Laboratoire sans domicile", https://disco.hypotheses.org
Research groups
- COACT (Complexity of (inter)action and multimodal participation)
Thesis supervisions
Doctoral thesis (ongoing)
Iuliia Avgustis, https://www.oulu.fi/university/researcher/iuliia-avgustis