Prof. Dr. Andrea Albrecht
Social and behavioural sciences, LanguagesLiterary studies, recent German literature, cultural studies
Languages
Linguistics, conversation analysis
I work in the field of interactional linguistics with an emphasis on the sequentiality of social action and the temporal nature of grammar. I have published on the development and use of pragmatic particles, features of grammar, such as projection, clause combining, clitics and reduplication, as well as prosody in interaction. Having re-interpreted the function of pro-forms and deixis in real-time embodied contexts, I am currently looking into practices of coordinating grammar with the body.
Oscar prize for most promising young scholars at Uppsala University, 2005
Benzelius prize, Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten, for the dissertation, 2004
English
L. Keevallik 2017: Linking performances: The temporality of contrastive grammar. In Linking in Grammar and Action, E. Couper-Kuhlen, R.Laury (Eds.). Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society. 54–72.
Keevallik, L., Hakulinen, A. 2017: Epistemically reinforced kyl(lä)/küll-responses in Estonian and Finnish: word order and social action. Journal of Pragmatics.
A. Weatherall, L. Keevallik 2016: When claims of understanding are less than affiliative. Research on Language and Social Interaction 49(3): 167–182.
M. Broth, L. Keevallik 2014: Getting ready to move as a couple: Accomplishing mobile formations in a dance class. Space and Culture 17(2): 107–121.
L. Keevallik 2014: Having a ball: Immaterial objects in dance instruction. In: Interacting with Objects: Language, Materiality, and Social Activity, M. Nevile, P. Haddington, T. Heinemann & M. Rauniomaa (Eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 245–264.
L. Keevallik 2014: Turn organization and bodily-vocal demonstrations. Journal of Pragmatics 65. Pp. 103–120.
L. Keevallik 2013: The interdependence of bodily demonstrations and clausal syntax. Research on Language and Social Interaction. 46(1): 1–21.
L. Keevallik 2013: Here in time and space: Decomposing movement in dance instruction. In: Interaction and Mobility: Language and the Body in Motion, P. Haddington, L. Mondada & M. Nevile (Eds.). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. Pp. 345–370.
L. Keevallik 2012: Compromising progressivity: ‘No’-prefacing in Estonian. Pragmatics 22(1): 119–146.
L. Keevallik 2011: Pro-forms as projective devices in interaction. Discourse Processes 48(6): 404–431.
L. Keevallik 2010: Bodily quoting in dance correction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 43(4): 1–26.
L. Keevallik 2010: Minimal answers to yes/no questions in the service of sequence organization. Discourse Studies 12(3): 1–27.
L. Keevallik 2009: The grammar-interaction interface of negative questions in Estonian. SKY Journal of Linguistics 22: 139–173.
L. Keevallik 2009: Internal development and borrowing of pragmatic particles: Estonian vaata/vat ‘look’, näed ‘you see’ and vot. Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen 30/31: 23–54.
L. Keevallik 2006: From discourse pattern to epistemic marker: Estonian (ei) tea ‘don't know’. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 29(2): 173–200.
L. Keevallik 1999: The use and abuse of singular and plural address forms in Estonian. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 139: 125–144.
Vocal practices for coordinating human action, Linköping University. Swedish Research Council, 2017 – 2023
The bodily component of grammar, Linköping University. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2011 – 2014
Estonian in Sweden: Grammar and lexicon of a language variety under changing circumstances, Uppsala university. Swedish Research Council, 2004 – 2006
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