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Salomaa, Elina, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Esa Lehtinen 2024 Negotiating leader identities through indirect mockery in talk about decision-making in a distributed leadership context Language and Dialogue 14:1, pp. 122–151 | Article

In this article, we scrutinise how humour, and in particular, indirect mockery contributes to the construction of leader identities in talk about decision-making in an organisation characterized by a distributed leadership context. So rather than focusing on decision-making episodes themselves,… read more

Nissi, Riikka and Esa Lehtinen 2023 Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme: The construction of managerial expertise in organisational training Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article

In contemporary organisations, managerial expertise is increasingly viewed as an ability to reflect on activities, processes and human relations within organisational life in order to gain a systemic understanding of the workings of the organisation. This article examines the interactional… read more

Nissi, Riikka and Esa Lehtinen 2015 Conducting a task while reconstructing its meaning: Interaction, professional identities and recontextualization of a written task assignment Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 393–423 | Article

This article investigates the way an institutional task of a meeting is oriented to by different meeting participants and developed in and through local interaction. Our data come from a city organization, where a large organizational change is planned and prepared through a series of face-to-face… read more

Mikkola, Piia and Esa Lehtinen 2014 Initiating activity shifts through use of appraisal forms as material objects during performance appraisal interviews Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Article

This study shows how participants of performance appraisal interviews use appraisal forms as material objects in initiations of activity shifts. Participants negotiate their willingness to proceed from one interview item to another by gazing at, pointing toward and manipulating the forms. This… read more