This article gives a canonical sequential analysis of openings and closings based on a
corpus of department meetings. The first section of the article shows how opening a meeting …

This article investigates the use of the Danish response token nåja in naturally occurring
conversation. The article shows that nåja functions as a change-of-state token with which a …

This article investigates 'yes but'initiated utterances in German and Danish conversations.
The investigated utterances perform rejecting and disagreeing actions and they all occur in …

Items such as oh and ah have always received a somewhat step-motherly treatment in
traditional linguistics, where they have been classified as interjections (eg, Jespersen, 1924 …

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction,
within the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language …

The role of students' first language (s) in foreign language classrooms has been hotly
debated in the last decades. Although this line of research has advanced our understanding …

In multilingual work-place settings, there are many ways of addressing (or not addressing)
the issue of understanding, and different ways of handling when the issue is explicitly raised …

This chapter describes a language-specific solution to a generic and likely universal
interactional issue–how to show that the current utterance is occasioned by and should be …

This article explores the use of the Danish change-of-state token nå as it is used in polar Q
(uestion)-A (nswer) sequences. Nå is more generally employed in Danish to register an …

Reduplication is a phenomenon that can be applied to various linguistic units. In this article, I
determine what action the reduplication of the Danish change-of-state token nå …