Kristian Mortensen

Biographic Data

ID1052947
NAMEKristian Mortensen
GIVEN NAMESKristian
FAMILY NAMEMortensen
SIGNATUREMORTENSEN K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern Denmark
ORCID0000-0002-9790-1408
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS91
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Conversation Analysis

    Open AccessKristian Mortensen, Johannes WagnerCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    This entry introduces conversation analysis (CA) as a data‐driven research area and a research methodology dedicated to studying the organization of naturally occurring social interactions as they occur in real time. It presents the origin of CA in ethnomethodology as a sociological approach for describing how members of society establish and maintain social order. The approach describes how people achieve sense‐making in interaction by producing…

  • Conversation Analysis and Multimodality

    Open AccessKristian MortensenCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    In recent years, the number of conversation analysis (CA) publications and presentations that incorporate information about participants' bodily conduct has increased dramatically.

  • Rejecting unsolicited offers in human-robot interaction

    Open AccessKristian MortensenARTICLEDiscourse & Communication2025References: 12

    This paper reports on a semi-experimental study involving a social, persuasive robot. The robot is designed to offer drinks (water) to the elderly, and in this user test it offers water to people on a university campus. The paper describes situations where the human participants reject the offer, and how the robot challenges the rejection by providing a persuasion turn. The persuasion is rarely followed by an acceptance but instead leads to an ac…

  • Charles Goodwin, Co-Operative Action

    Open AccessKristian Mortensen, Susan HazelARTICLEPragmatics and Society2020

  • The Body as a Resource for Other-Initiation of Repair

    Kristian MortensenARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2016Cited by: 10References: 22

    This article analyzes how the human body serves as a resource for other-initiation of repair. It describes how a hand gesture, a cupped hand behind the ear, is oriented to as a repair initiation in a foreign language classroom. The gesture typically occurs in the absence of speech and is treated as a hearing problem. The article argues that “hearing” does not refer to the acoustic reception but rather to the recipient’s hearing as displayed condu…

  • Embodying the institution—Object manipulation in developing interaction in study counselling meetings

    Susan Hazel, Kristian MortensenARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2014Cited by: 15References: 41

  • Moving into interaction-Social practices for initiating encounters at a help desk

    Kristian Mortensen, Susan Hazel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2014Cited by: 29References: 39

  • Introduction

    Susan Hazel, Spencer Hazel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2014Cited by: 25References: 41

  • Conversation Analysis

    Open AccessKristian Mortensen, Johannes WagnerCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Conversation analysis (CA) is a data‐driven research methodology, which studies the organization of naturally occurring social interactions, as they occur in real time.

  • Establishing Recipiency in Pre-Beginning Position in the Second Language Classroom

    Kristian MortensenARTICLEDiscourse Processes2009Cited by: 12References: 64

    This article describes how students in the second language classroom claim incipient speakership and establish recipiency with a co-participant before the turn is properly initiated. The resources used by the incipient speaker include in-breaths and body movements. The article shows that when the teacher's turn is designed as not to pre-establish the participation roles “speaker” and “recipient” of the response turn, the next speaker orients to e…