Arja Piirainen-Marsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arja Piirainen-Marsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arja |
| FAMILY NAME | Piirainen-Marsh |
| SIGNATURE | PIIRAINEN-MARSH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9898-3444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Manual Interventions
Drawing on datasets of interactions in which the participants are engaged in manual activities, this article investigates manual interventions—that is, multimodal methods by which Other takes hold of an object that is handled by Self and starts manipulating it in a way that modifies the projected course of action. The analysis shows that manual interventions are achieved by Other first moving into the space in which Self handles the object, then …
Manual know-how in interaction
Instructed perception and action: The mutual accomplishment of manual know-how in using VR games
Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching
The articles in this special issue contribute to understanding the interactional grounding of language learning by scrutinizing how patterns of language use emerge and get routinized as dynamic resources for accomplishing actions in co‐constructed interaction. Their findings problematize how grammar is represented in second language (L2) teaching materials and have important implications for future research and language pedagogy. In this commenta…
Coordinating action in technology-supported shared tasks: Virtual pointing as a situated practice for mobilizing a response
Drawing on recordings of remote screen-based work meetings in Finland, this conversation analytic study investigates interactive properties of mouse cursor movements in technology-mediated shared tasks. The article illustrates how participants rely on features afforded by the input device in ways that divert from its pre-designed functions to accomplish virtual pointing gestures. These gestures serve as an organizational resource in the precursor…
Connecting the Language Classroom and the Wild: Re-enactments of Language Use Experiences
Using multimodal conversation analysis, this article analyses language learning as an in situ process during a teacher-assigned, experientially based pedagogical activity. The activity involved a three-part pedagogical structure, where learners first prepared for and then participated in real-life service encounters, and later reflected on their experiences back in the classroom. The analysis details how the co-constructed telling sequences throu…
How Hand Gestures Contribute to Action Ascription
This article investigates the embodied achievement of intersubjectivity by analyzing depictive gestures that are produced during the final components of the ongoing verbal TCU and extended into the following turn transition space. The depictive gestures in focus elaborate the TCUs by providing additional information on the verbal content of the turn. They may, for example, provide a visual representation of an action that is referred to in the ve…
Explaining Hooke’s Law: Definitional Practices in a CLIL Physics Classroom
This article examines how a teacher in a Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) program engages in various definitional practices during a plenary episode in a physics class taught in English in Finland. The episode focuses on explaining Hooke’s law, which involves defining its key concepts and their relations as instructable matters. Using multimodal conversation analysis, the article shows how the teacher accomplishes definitions and d…
Openings in technology-mediated business meetings
Manual Guiding in Peer Group Interaction: A Resource for Organizing a Practical Classroom Task
How might someone carry out an educational task by moving an object or by guiding another person in doing so? This article describes the practical work of a group of school students as they work through an object-based physics task. It analyzes a recurrent practice whereby one student influences another's embodied conduct, either by manually guiding an object (a weight, a moveable plank, and so on) or by guiding the hand of another student as the…
Assessments and the social construction of expertise in political TV interviews
This paper investigates how rights to knowledge and opinion are negotiated through assessments embedded in questioning sequences in political news interviews. The focus is on describing how assessments index epistemic positions and evaluative stances embedded in the turns through which the institutional goals of the interview are achieved. The analysis shows how assessments combine with other turn-constructional resources to build a critical or o…
Bilingual practices and the social organisation of video gaming activities
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Language policy in the making: An analysis of bilingual gaming activities
Young People's Translocal New Media Uses: A Multiperspective Analysis Of Language Choice And Heteroglossia
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4 case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns' new media uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse …
Managing adversarial questioning in broadcast interviews
This paper considers the notion of impoliteness through a detailed analysis of questioning and answering in confrontational television interviews. The paper first discusses the notions of politeness and impoliteness in discourse on the basis of previous research, paying particular attention to work generated by Brown and Levinson's model (e. g., Culpeper 1996; Harris 2001) and recent critiques and alternatives to the dominant 'paradigm' (e. g., A…
Young People's Translocal New Media Uses: A Multiperspective Analysis Of Language Choice And Heteroglossia
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4 case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns' new media uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse …
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Managing adversarial questioning in broadcast interviews
This paper considers the notion of impoliteness through a detailed analysis of questioning and answering in confrontational television interviews. The paper first discusses the notions of politeness and impoliteness in discourse on the basis of previous research, paying particular attention to work generated by Brown and Levinson's model (e. g., Culpeper 1996; Harris 2001) and recent critiques and alternatives to the dominant 'paradigm' (e. g., A…
Manual Guiding in Peer Group Interaction: A Resource for Organizing a Practical Classroom Task
How might someone carry out an educational task by moving an object or by guiding another person in doing so? This article describes the practical work of a group of school students as they work through an object-based physics task. It analyzes a recurrent practice whereby one student influences another's embodied conduct, either by manually guiding an object (a weight, a moveable plank, and so on) or by guiding the hand of another student as the…
Language policy in the making: An analysis of bilingual gaming activities
Openings in technology-mediated business meetings
Coordinating action in technology-supported shared tasks: Virtual pointing as a situated practice for mobilizing a response
Drawing on recordings of remote screen-based work meetings in Finland, this conversation analytic study investigates interactive properties of mouse cursor movements in technology-mediated shared tasks. The article illustrates how participants rely on features afforded by the input device in ways that divert from its pre-designed functions to accomplish virtual pointing gestures. These gestures serve as an organizational resource in the precursor…
How Hand Gestures Contribute to Action Ascription
This article investigates the embodied achievement of intersubjectivity by analyzing depictive gestures that are produced during the final components of the ongoing verbal TCU and extended into the following turn transition space. The depictive gestures in focus elaborate the TCUs by providing additional information on the verbal content of the turn. They may, for example, provide a visual representation of an action that is referred to in the ve…
Bilingual practices and the social organisation of video gaming activities
Manual Interventions
Drawing on datasets of interactions in which the participants are engaged in manual activities, this article investigates manual interventions—that is, multimodal methods by which Other takes hold of an object that is handled by Self and starts manipulating it in a way that modifies the projected course of action. The analysis shows that manual interventions are achieved by Other first moving into the space in which Self handles the object, then …
Managing adversarial questioning in broadcast interviews
This paper considers the notion of impoliteness through a detailed analysis of questioning and answering in confrontational television interviews. The paper first discusses the notions of politeness and impoliteness in discourse on the basis of previous research, paying particular attention to work generated by Brown and Levinson's model (e. g., Culpeper 1996; Harris 2001) and recent critiques and alternatives to the dominant 'paradigm' (e. g., A…
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Language policy in the making: An analysis of bilingual gaming activities
Young People's Translocal New Media Uses: A Multiperspective Analysis Of Language Choice And Heteroglossia
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4 case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns' new media uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse …
Bilingual practices and the social organisation of video gaming activities
Assessments and the social construction of expertise in political TV interviews
This paper investigates how rights to knowledge and opinion are negotiated through assessments embedded in questioning sequences in political news interviews. The focus is on describing how assessments index epistemic positions and evaluative stances embedded in the turns through which the institutional goals of the interview are achieved. The analysis shows how assessments combine with other turn-constructional resources to build a critical or o…
Manual Guiding in Peer Group Interaction: A Resource for Organizing a Practical Classroom Task
How might someone carry out an educational task by moving an object or by guiding another person in doing so? This article describes the practical work of a group of school students as they work through an object-based physics task. It analyzes a recurrent practice whereby one student influences another's embodied conduct, either by manually guiding an object (a weight, a moveable plank, and so on) or by guiding the hand of another student as the…
Openings in technology-mediated business meetings
Explaining Hooke’s Law: Definitional Practices in a CLIL Physics Classroom
This article examines how a teacher in a Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) program engages in various definitional practices during a plenary episode in a physics class taught in English in Finland. The episode focuses on explaining Hooke’s law, which involves defining its key concepts and their relations as instructable matters. Using multimodal conversation analysis, the article shows how the teacher accomplishes definitions and d…
Connecting the Language Classroom and the Wild: Re-enactments of Language Use Experiences
Using multimodal conversation analysis, this article analyses language learning as an in situ process during a teacher-assigned, experientially based pedagogical activity. The activity involved a three-part pedagogical structure, where learners first prepared for and then participated in real-life service encounters, and later reflected on their experiences back in the classroom. The analysis details how the co-constructed telling sequences throu…
How Hand Gestures Contribute to Action Ascription
This article investigates the embodied achievement of intersubjectivity by analyzing depictive gestures that are produced during the final components of the ongoing verbal TCU and extended into the following turn transition space. The depictive gestures in focus elaborate the TCUs by providing additional information on the verbal content of the turn. They may, for example, provide a visual representation of an action that is referred to in the ve…
Coordinating action in technology-supported shared tasks: Virtual pointing as a situated practice for mobilizing a response
Drawing on recordings of remote screen-based work meetings in Finland, this conversation analytic study investigates interactive properties of mouse cursor movements in technology-mediated shared tasks. The article illustrates how participants rely on features afforded by the input device in ways that divert from its pre-designed functions to accomplish virtual pointing gestures. These gestures serve as an organizational resource in the precursor…
Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching
The articles in this special issue contribute to understanding the interactional grounding of language learning by scrutinizing how patterns of language use emerge and get routinized as dynamic resources for accomplishing actions in co‐constructed interaction. Their findings problematize how grammar is represented in second language (L2) teaching materials and have important implications for future research and language pedagogy. In this commenta…
Instructed perception and action: The mutual accomplishment of manual know-how in using VR games
Manual Interventions
Drawing on datasets of interactions in which the participants are engaged in manual activities, this article investigates manual interventions—that is, multimodal methods by which Other takes hold of an object that is handled by Self and starts manipulating it in a way that modifies the projected course of action. The analysis shows that manual interventions are achieved by Other first moving into the space in which Self handles the object, then …
Manual know-how in interaction
Psychology (12 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Action (physics (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Communication (4 works)