Employers’ requirements for Finnish language proficiency and the skills of suitable employees do not always match. Salla Kurhila, professor of interactional linguistics, and her colleagues are looking ...

Have you ever wondered why we say the things we say? How a skilled interviewer can get celebrities to dish all? Why the first phrase we say after “hi” in the U.S. is still “how are you?” even if we ...

The CU Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to inclusive excellence at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Students are offered foundational coursework and research opportunities ...

Kielipankki – The Language Bank of Finland is a service for researchers using language resources. Karita Suomalainen tells us about her research on interactional linguistics where she has used the ...

This module deals with language as a means of interpersonal interaction and introduces the methods of conversation and interaction analysis. This elective module can be productively combined with all ...

This article discusses a less-studied aspect of repair sequences in conversation, that is, their exit phases. It will be argued that while the most common way of exiting is a resumption of the main ...