Research
Academic interests
- Conversation Analysis
- Interaction
- Language in certain contexts
- Functional linguistics
- Phonetics and prosody
- Intonation
- Danish grammar
- Response tokens
Selected publications
Sørensen, Søren Sandager. 2023. Exclamative clauses with hvor, hvilken and sikke in Danish: Insubordination and phrasal discontinuity. Skrifter om Samtalegrammatik 9(1).
Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen. 2023. Toward a Grammar of Danish Talk-in-Interaction: From Action Formation to Grammatical Description. Research on Language and Social Interaction 56(2): 116-140. doi:10.1080/08351813.2023.2205304 [Free e-prints still available - click HERE]
Sørensen, Søren Sandager. 2021. Tvungne ja/nej-svar som interviewformat [Forced yes/no-answer as an interview format]. In Yonatan Goldshtein, Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen & Tina Thode Hougaard (eds.), 18. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog [18th Meeting on the Exploration of the Danish Language], 479-495. Aarhus: Nordic - School of Communication and Culture.
Sørensen, Søren Sandager. 2021. Samtalens mønstre [Patterns of the conversation]. Dansknoter 3(2021): 58-59.
Sørensen, Søren Sandager & Jakob Steensig. 2021. Rising OKAY in Third Position in Danish Talk-in-Interaction. In Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Marja-Leena Sorjonen & Lorenza Mondada (eds.), OKAY across languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, 176–204. John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/slsi.34.06sor
Sørensen, Søren Sandager. 2021. Affiliating in second position: Response tokens with rising pitch in Danish. Research on Language and Social Interaction 54(1): 101-125. doi:10.1080/08351813.2020.1864159 [Free e-prints still available - click HERE]
Sørensen, Søren Sandager. 2019. Handling og intonation på tværs af svarord [Action and intonation across response tokens]. In Yonatan Goldshtein, Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen & Tina Thode Hougaard (eds.), 17. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog [17th Meeting on the Exploration of the Danish Language], 503–522. Aarhus: Nordic - School of Communication and Culture.
Sørensen, Søren Sandager, Andrea Bruun, Maria Jørgensen, Ehm Hjorth Miltersen & Jakob Steensig. 2019. Øh(m) i samtalegrammatik.dk [Øh(m) 'uh(m)' in Samtalegrammatik.dk (the website for the description of Danish talk-in-interaction)]. In Yonatan Goldshtein, Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen & Tina Thode Hougaard (eds.), 17. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog [17th Meeting on the Exploration of the Danish Language], 523–534. Aarhus: Nordic - School of Communication and Culture.
Steensig, Jakob & Søren Sandager Sørensen. 2019. Danish dialogue particles in an interactional perspective. Scandinavian Studies in Language 10(1): 63–84. doi:10.7146/sss.v10i1.114671.
Sørensen, Søren Sandager. 2015. Turfinalt eller i spørgsmål i dansk interaktion [Turnfinal eller 'or' in questions in Danish interaction]. In Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen & Tina Thode Hougaard (eds.), 15. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog [15th Meeting on the Exploration of the Danish Language], 377–398. Aarhus: Nordic - School of Communication and Culture.
Steensig, Jakob, Karen Kiil Brøcker, Caroline Grønkjær, Magnus Glenvad Tind Hamann, Rasmus Puggaard, Maria Jørgensen, Mathias Høyer Kragelund, Nicholas Hedegaard Mikkelsen, Tina Mølgaard, Henriette Folkmann Pedersen, Søren Sandager Sørensen & Emilie Tholstrup. 2013. The DanTIN project - creating a platform for describing the grammar of Danish talk-in-interaction. In Jan Heegård & Peter Juel Henrichsen (eds.), New Perspectives on Speech in Action. Proceedings of the 2nd SJUSK Conference on Contemporary Speech Habits, 195–226. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur Press.
General outreach
- A number of posts on Lingoblog.dk
- Interviewed in feature as part of interview with Ella Paldam (Autistiske børn kan lære os om samarbejde), in the radio program Kraniebrud on Radio4, November 27, 2023.
- Mention of research on okay in Politiken (by Lotte Thorsen), August 23, 2022
- Performance for Lingoslam, described on Lingoblog.dk entry: LingoSlam 2022! More exciting than ever!, Alexandra Kratschmer, May 20, 2022.
- Interview on response tokens (Fifty shades of ja, nej og mmm), in the radio program Kraniebrud on Radio4, March 28, 2022.
- Article on nå 'oh' with interviews with me and others in Politiken (by Lotte Thorsen), July 11, 2021.