Mika Simonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 149596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mika Simonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mika |
| FAMILY NAME | Simonen |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0004-9165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Animal actions and their involvement in human meaning-making processes in interaction
Introduction: This article examines the meaning-making processes involved in how non-human animals, particularly dogs, contribute to our understanding of the concept of "a ball-throwing exercise." Theoretically, the article aligns with and contributes to interspecies pragmatics by introducing cognitive dimensions to the field. Interspecies pragmatics is based on conversation analytic (CA) research; this article explores how CA findings on cogniti…
This place cannot be tidied up!’ Stigmatisation, rats, and place-making in a multispecies city
Peer-advice in practical nursing study circles: Demonstrating knowing-that and knowing-how in sequences that contain reported speech
Peer interaction in an educational context differs from peer interaction in therapeutic contexts in its preference for advice giving. • Nursing students quote patient and their own voice differently when constructing themselves as morally and ethically reliable caregivers. • Nursing students construct their expert identity by using story-closing advice giving that reports knowing-how in ways that qualify them as competent group members. • In cont…
Acculturation Among Finnish Somalis: An Imitation Game Inquiry Into Bicultural Fluency
According to acculturation theories, members of immigrant second-generation minorities hold a broader cultural competence — a bicultural fluency — for living in two cultures, compared to members of the native majority who are mainly limited to the mainstream experience only. In this paper, we employ a new research method to acculturation research — the Imitation Game — to investigate this claim. Our case concerns second-generation Finnish Somalis…
Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways
This article introduces the notion of interspecies pragmatics and suggests that embodied CA studies can inform such pragmatics. The aim of the study was to investigate how dogs provide embodied responses to human utterances when a human is about to throw a ball for them to catch. Studying dogs' recipiency in interaction requires that multimodal approaches be taken into consideration. The data were collected with GoPro cameras attached to two dogs…
Expertise as a domain in interaction
We start this article from Gilbert Ryle’s distinction between propositional knowledge, ‘knowing-that’, and procedural knowledge, ‘knowing-how’, and investigate how participants in interaction display orientation to the latter in various settings. As the knowledge of how things are done, know-how can be analyzed in terms of its relevance and consequentiality for parties in interaction. Similarly, as participants adjust their actions and understand…
Expertise in interaction - Introduction
Active and latent social groups and their interactional expertise
As a part of their normative theory of expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans proposed that interactional expertise forms the third kind of knowledge, located between formal propositional knowledge and embodied skills. Interactional expertise refers to the capability to grasp the conceptual structure of another's social world, and it is expressed as the ability to speak fluently the language spoken in that social world. According to their theo…
Dog Ownership from a Life Course Perspective and Leisure-time Physical Activity in Late Adulthood: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study
Objective We investigated the association between dog ownership during the life course and leisure-time PA (LTPA) in late adulthood. Methods We included 714 participants (mean age = 70.8 ± 2.6 years) from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study (HBCS). Dog ownership for every decade of life, current dog ownership, and current LTPA in metabolic equivalents of task (MET) were assessed with questionnaires. Age and sex adjusted generalized estimating equatio…
Social identity and procedural consequentiality in welfare interviews
This article studies how, in welfare interviews, interviewers receive simple positive responses from interviewees that are not indexing any answer options. Using videotaped data from welfare-related interviews in Finland ( N =23), it is shown that interviewers receiving response particles joo ‘yeah’ and kyllä ‘yes’, and the verb repeat response pystyn ‘I am able’, may treat them (i) as interchangeable, and (ii) differently, since they take into a…
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways
This article introduces the notion of interspecies pragmatics and suggests that embodied CA studies can inform such pragmatics. The aim of the study was to investigate how dogs provide embodied responses to human utterances when a human is about to throw a ball for them to catch. Studying dogs' recipiency in interaction requires that multimodal approaches be taken into consideration. The data were collected with GoPro cameras attached to two dogs…
Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives
Expertise as a domain in interaction
We start this article from Gilbert Ryle’s distinction between propositional knowledge, ‘knowing-that’, and procedural knowledge, ‘knowing-how’, and investigate how participants in interaction display orientation to the latter in various settings. As the knowledge of how things are done, know-how can be analyzed in terms of its relevance and consequentiality for parties in interaction. Similarly, as participants adjust their actions and understand…
Active and latent social groups and their interactional expertise
As a part of their normative theory of expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans proposed that interactional expertise forms the third kind of knowledge, located between formal propositional knowledge and embodied skills. Interactional expertise refers to the capability to grasp the conceptual structure of another's social world, and it is expressed as the ability to speak fluently the language spoken in that social world. According to their theo…
Acculturation Among Finnish Somalis: An Imitation Game Inquiry Into Bicultural Fluency
According to acculturation theories, members of immigrant second-generation minorities hold a broader cultural competence — a bicultural fluency — for living in two cultures, compared to members of the native majority who are mainly limited to the mainstream experience only. In this paper, we employ a new research method to acculturation research — the Imitation Game — to investigate this claim. Our case concerns second-generation Finnish Somalis…
Social identity and procedural consequentiality in welfare interviews
This article studies how, in welfare interviews, interviewers receive simple positive responses from interviewees that are not indexing any answer options. Using videotaped data from welfare-related interviews in Finland ( N =23), it is shown that interviewers receiving response particles joo ‘yeah’ and kyllä ‘yes’, and the verb repeat response pystyn ‘I am able’, may treat them (i) as interchangeable, and (ii) differently, since they take into a…
Dog Ownership from a Life Course Perspective and Leisure-time Physical Activity in Late Adulthood: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study
Objective We investigated the association between dog ownership during the life course and leisure-time PA (LTPA) in late adulthood. Methods We included 714 participants (mean age = 70.8 ± 2.6 years) from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study (HBCS). Dog ownership for every decade of life, current dog ownership, and current LTPA in metabolic equivalents of task (MET) were assessed with questionnaires. Age and sex adjusted generalized estimating equatio…
Active and latent social groups and their interactional expertise
As a part of their normative theory of expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans proposed that interactional expertise forms the third kind of knowledge, located between formal propositional knowledge and embodied skills. Interactional expertise refers to the capability to grasp the conceptual structure of another's social world, and it is expressed as the ability to speak fluently the language spoken in that social world. According to their theo…
Expertise as a domain in interaction
We start this article from Gilbert Ryle’s distinction between propositional knowledge, ‘knowing-that’, and procedural knowledge, ‘knowing-how’, and investigate how participants in interaction display orientation to the latter in various settings. As the knowledge of how things are done, know-how can be analyzed in terms of its relevance and consequentiality for parties in interaction. Similarly, as participants adjust their actions and understand…
Expertise in interaction - Introduction
Dogs responding to human utterances in embodied ways
This article introduces the notion of interspecies pragmatics and suggests that embodied CA studies can inform such pragmatics. The aim of the study was to investigate how dogs provide embodied responses to human utterances when a human is about to throw a ball for them to catch. Studying dogs' recipiency in interaction requires that multimodal approaches be taken into consideration. The data were collected with GoPro cameras attached to two dogs…
Peer-advice in practical nursing study circles: Demonstrating knowing-that and knowing-how in sequences that contain reported speech
Peer interaction in an educational context differs from peer interaction in therapeutic contexts in its preference for advice giving. • Nursing students quote patient and their own voice differently when constructing themselves as morally and ethically reliable caregivers. • Nursing students construct their expert identity by using story-closing advice giving that reports knowing-how in ways that qualify them as competent group members. • In cont…
Acculturation Among Finnish Somalis: An Imitation Game Inquiry Into Bicultural Fluency
According to acculturation theories, members of immigrant second-generation minorities hold a broader cultural competence — a bicultural fluency — for living in two cultures, compared to members of the native majority who are mainly limited to the mainstream experience only. In this paper, we employ a new research method to acculturation research — the Imitation Game — to investigate this claim. Our case concerns second-generation Finnish Somalis…
Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives
This place cannot be tidied up!’ Stigmatisation, rats, and place-making in a multispecies city
Animal actions and their involvement in human meaning-making processes in interaction
Introduction: This article examines the meaning-making processes involved in how non-human animals, particularly dogs, contribute to our understanding of the concept of "a ball-throwing exercise." Theoretically, the article aligns with and contributes to interspecies pragmatics by introducing cognitive dimensions to the field. Interspecies pragmatics is based on conversation analytic (CA) research; this article explores how CA findings on cogniti…
Psychology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Communication (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research (4 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Conversation (3 works)