Jenny Gudmundsen

Doctoral Research Fellow - Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan

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Email jenny.gudmundsen@iln.uio.no

Mobile phone +47 93 49 36 80

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1102 Blindern 0316 Oslo

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Academic interests

Mutual understanding in multilingual interaction (vocabulary-oriented sequences)
Language learning 'in the wild' (outside pedagogical settings)
Longitudinal Conversation Analysis
Multimodal interaction
Video ethnography

Background

My work experience has been mostly in internal and external communications, PR and journalism. Before I joined MultiLing I was a communications consultant at Gambit Hill+Knowlton Strategies and worked for various clients including Sporveien, Fjord Line and Innovation Norway. From 2015-2017 I was a part of the Public Affairs division of the Royal Norwegian Air Force staff. My key responsibilities included internal communications in the context of major organizational restructuring. During my bachelor's I worked as a journalist for Universitas, Norway's largest student newspaper.
MA in Rhetorics and communications (2019), University of Oslo.
Exchange: Copenhagen University, Copenhagen.
MA thesis: "Mutual understadning at risk: A multimodal conversation analysis of vocabulary-oriented sequences in second language conversations".
BA in Media science (2014), University of Oslo.
Exchange: American University (Washington Semester Program), Washington D.C.
Internship: communications assistant in the PR department of the previous music streaming service WiMP Music.

Tags: Conversation Analysis, Multimodality, Multilingualism, Multilingual language practices

Gudmundsen, Jenny & Svennevig, Jan (2020). Multimodal displays of understanding in vocabulary-oriented sequences. Social Interaction - Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality. ISSN 2446-3620. 3(2). doi: 10.7146/si.v3i2.114992. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
How do participants use multimodal means to display joint understanding after dealing with vocabulary problems in second language interactions? In this article, we investigate the resolution phase of vocabulary-oriented sequences, more specifically word searches, word explanation sequences and vocabulary checks. We argue that understanding is displayed not only by change-of-state tokens, but typically by a more encompassing multimodal gestalt involving facial expression, gestures, and torso movements. A central feature of this gestalt is what we propose to call the change-of-state face, which consists in raised eyebrows and widened eyes and is produced while the head and/or the torso is raised upwards. Typically, this display of a change-of-state is followed by further demonstrations of understanding, such as verbal and gestural repeats. Finally, the solution of the problem is often ‘celebrated’ by means of reciprocal smiling. Not all vocabulary-oriented sequences are equally successful. Facial expression and gesture may also be used to resist and question a proposal of a candidate solution to a word search or a request for an explanation. In this way, multimodal means are crucial to establishing the success of vocabulary-oriented sequences and returning to the main business of the talk.

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Gudmundsen, Jenny (2021). 23 ting om å formidle på nett: "Hvordan lærer vi med ny teknologi?" .
Gudmundsen, Jenny (2021). Hvordan lærer vi med ny teknologi?
Gudmundsen, Jenny (2021). The chat function as a resource in learning-related sequences in video-mediated L2 interaction.
Gudmundsen, Jenny (2021). The development of participants’ orientation to the chat function in video-mediated L2 interaction. .
Gudmundsen, Jenny (2020). Walid (27) lærer norsk over en kopp kaffe. [Internet]. https://journalen.oslomet.no/.
Gudmundsen, Jenny (2020). Traces of language learning over time: A longitudinal Conversation Analysis of informal second language conversations.

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Published Apr. 8, 2020 4:11 PM - Last modified Sep. 24, 2020 4:47 PM

Projects

Traces of interactional change over time: A longitudinal Conversation Analysis of informal second language conversations

Research groups

Conversation analysis and interactional linguistics