Children seeking the driver's attention in cars: Position and composition of children's summons turns and children's rights to engage
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Tiina Eilittä is a doctoral researcher, working at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature (English) at the University of Oulu, Finland. She uses conversation analysis to study interaction between adults and children at busy moments of everyday life where multiple activities take place simultaneously. In her doctoral dissertation, she focuses on the practices that children use for summoning adults, and the adults' responses to them. Her research data consists of Finnish and English video recordings of interaction in families and early childhood education. Currently, she is co-editing two books and working as an editor in Finnish Journal of Linguistics.
Pentti Haddington is Professor of English language and interaction at the University of Oulu, Finland. He uses video-based methods and conversation analysis to study social interaction in complex settings. He is interested in how participants talk, use their bodies and other multimodal resources as part of their everyday social activities. He is currently studying multiactivity in various settings and interaction in multinational crisis management training. Haddington's research has been published for example in Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Pragmatics and Text & Talk. He has also co-edited several books, for example for Benjamins and de Gruyter.
Anna Vatanen, PhD, works currently as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has also worked at the Centre of Excellence on Intersubjectivity in Interaction at the University of Helsinki. Vatanen is an interactional linguist and conversation analyst who works on video-recorded Finnish and Estonian conversational data. Her research has been published for instance in Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Pragmatics, and several edited volumes. The phenomena she has studied include silent moments in interaction, units of language, various social actions, turn-taking organization, and multiactivity.