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Marja-Leena Sorjonen Editor & Author

Barbara Fox is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She works at the intersection of grammar, the body, and social interaction. Her book Grammar in Everyday Talk (with Thompson and Couper-Kuhlen, Cambridge, 2015), won the Best Book Award from the International Society for Conversation Analysis in 2018. Lorenza Mondada is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on social interaction in ordinary, professional and institutional settings, within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective. She has co-edited several collective books, and published Sensing in Social Interaction (Cambridge, 2021). Marja-Leena Sorjonen is Professor of Finnish language at the University of Helsinki. Her studies cover interactional practices in mundane interactions and in a range of institutional settings, conducted from conversation analytic and interactional linguistic perspectives. She has co-edited several volumes, and published Responding in Conversation (John Benjamins, 2001).