Kristian Mortensen

KMAssociate Professor
Department of Design and Communication
krimo[at]sdu.dk
(2014 – present)

 

 

Skærmbillede 2016-05-02 kl. 12.31.30_PixelatedMy background is in Spanish philology (BA), international business communication (MA) and applied linguistics, second language pedagogy (PhD). For many years I have been interested in student participation in the classroom. Being a multi-party setting it is (extremely!) difficult to study sense-making practices without looking at the full range of resources that participants draw on in such settings: language, gestures, gaze, bodies, textbooks, boards, pens and coffee mugs to name just some of them. Just think of the kind of analysis you can do based on audio-only recordings with a classroom with 20+ students! The acknowledgement that participants in some setting draw on a range of different (‘multimodal’) resources for sense-making practices generally underlies my research. Recently, I have become increasingly interested in how physical artifacts are used and manipulated; touched and experienced; investigated and glanced at etc. during courses of social interaction and how objects are shaped by and in themselves shape the interaction, and are attributed with meaning about their properties and features.

CURRENT WORK

Toyota_L&F_Geneo_005Together with Spencer Hazel I am currently looking at how graphic structures work as teacher elicitation devices, and how participants use their bodies during repair sequences. With Johannes Wagner, Dennis Day, Maurice Nevile and Spencer Hazel I look at forklift driving in an educational environment. With Rineke Brouwer I look at individual note taking in social-institutional settings. With Trine Heinemann I look at repeated gestures in collaborative design activities. With Elisa Giaccardi and Lenneke Kuijer I am currently editing a special issues of Design Studies.

For more information take a look at my homepage: https://kristianmortensen.net/

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming

  • Navigating the moral maze: Order and transgression in language classroom participation. – Mortensen, K. & Hazel, S. (forsch./2016). To appear in Hoffmann, S., A. Schön & G. Schwab (eds.): Interaktion im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Beiträge aus der empirischen Forschung. Münster: LIT Verlag.
  • The body as a resource for other-initiation of repair: cupping the hand behind the ear – Mortensen, K. 2016 In : Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 34-57.
  • Conversation Analysis and Intercultural Communication – Brandt, A. & Mortensen, K. (2016). In Zhù Huá (ed.): Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide (pp. 297-310). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Interaktion im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Beiträge aus der empirischen Forschung. – Mortensen, K. & Hazel, S. (forthc. 2016/2017).  To appear in Hoffmann, S., A. Schön & G. Schwab (eds.): Empirische Forschung zur Unterrichtsinteraktion. Münster, Germany: LIT Verlag.
  • Designedly Incomplete Objects – materially constituted elicitation tools in language classroom interaction. Hazel, S. & Mortensen, K. (submitted). Submitted to Applied Linguistics
  • The classroom moral compass. Participation, engagement and transgression in classroom interaction. – Hazel, S. & Mortensen, K. (forthcoming). Classroom Discourse.

2016

  • The body as a resource for other-initiation of repair: Cupping the hand behind the ear. – Mortensen, K. (2016). Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 34-57.
  • Conversation Analysis and Intercultural Communication. – Brandt, A. & Mortensen, K. (2016). In Zhù Huá (ed.): Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide (pp. 297-310). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

2015

  • Noticing objects within the home: Navigating a new dwelling with a video recorder – Luck, R. & Mortensen, K. May 2015 Proceedings of the 4th Participatory Innovation Conference 2015. Valkenburg, R., Dekkers, C. & Sluijs, J. (eds.). The Hague: The Hague University of Applied Sciences, p. 410-415

2014

  • Embodying the institution – Object manipulation in developing interaction in study counselling meetings – Hazel, S. & Mortensen, K. 2014 In : Journal of Pragmatics. 65, p. 10-29
  • Introduction: A body of resources – CA studies of social conduct – Hazel, S., Mortensen, K. & Rasmussen, G. 2014 In : Journal of Pragmatics. 65, p. 1-9
  • Moving into interaction – Social practices for initiating encounters at a help desk – Mortensen, K. & Hazel, S. 2014 In : Journal of Pragmatics. 65, p. 46-67
  • Special issue: A body of resources – CA studies of social conduct – Rasmussen, G., Mortensen, K. & Hazel, S. (eds.) 2014 In : Journal of Pragmatics. 65, p. 1-156

2013

  • Writing aloud: Some interactional functions of the public display of emergent writing – Mortensen, K. 2013 Proceedings of the Participatory Innovation Conference PIN-C 2013. Melkas, H. & Buur, J. (eds.). Lahti: Lappeenranta University of Technology, p. 119-125

2012

  • Visual initiations of repair – some preliminary observations – Mortensen, K. 2012 Challenges and New Directions in the Micro-Analysis of Social Interaction. Ikeda, K. & Brandt, A. (eds.). Osaka: Division of International Affairs, Kansai University, p. 45-50
  • Conversation Analysis and Multimodality – Mortensen, K. 2012 Conversation Analysis and Applied Linguistics: The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wagner, J., Mortensen, K. & Chapelle, C. A. (eds.). Oxford, p. 1061-1068
  • Conversation Analysis: Overview – Mortensen, K. & Wagner, J. 2012 Conversation Analysis and Applied Linguistics. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wagner, J., Mortensen, K. & Chapelle, C. A. (eds.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 1075-1082
  • Conversation Analysis and Applied Linguistics: The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (general editor C.A. Chapelle) – Wagner, J. & Mortensen, K. 2012 Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

2011

  • Initiating round robins in the L2 classroom – preliminary observations – Mortensen, K. & Hazel, S. 2011 In : Novitas – R O Y A L. 5, 1, p. 55-70
  • Preliminary notes on ‘Grooming the Object’: The example of an architectural presentation – Mortensen, K. & Lundsgaard, C. 2011 Proceedings of the Participatory Innovation Conference. Buur, J. (ed.). Sønderborg: University of Southern Denmark, p. 99-104
  • Doing word explanation in interaction – Mortensen, K. 2011 L2 Learning as Social Practice: Conversation-analytic Perspectives. Pallotti, G. & Wagner, J. (eds.). Honolulu: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, p. 135-163

2009

  • Establishing recipiency in pre-beginning position in the second language classroom (PDF) – Mortensen, K. (2009). . Discourse Processes, 46(5), 491-515.

2008

  • Instructions and Participation in the Second Language Classroom – Mortensen, K. (2008). University of Southern Denmark. Unpublished PhD Dissertation.
  • Selecting next-speaker in the second language classroom: How to find a willing next-speaker in planned activities (PDF)- Mortensen, K. (2008). Journal of Applied Linguistics, 5(1), 55-79.

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