Riikka Nissi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Riikka Nissi is involved.
2025 The use of transformative and extended responses in conducting sales work in product demonstration workshops Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
The article investigates sales interaction in the work of a photographic artist who provides art-based training services for workplaces. The data come from a product demonstration workshop where the artist presents a photographic method to prospective customers to raise their interest in the… read more
2025 Emergent professional practices: The construction of an institutional trainer role in a creative workshop Language and Dialogue 15:3, pp. 438–468 | Article
This article investigates the professional practices of creative entrepreneurs. The data come from organizational training workshops provided by a photographic artist who acts in a new training profession and uses art-based methods for the purposes of organizational development. Utilizing… read more
2024 Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme: The construction of managerial expertise in organisational training Pragmatics 34:3, pp. 422–446 | 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
2022 The moral work of becoming a professional: The interactional practices of storytelling in professional peer mentoring groups Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts, Van De Mieroop, Dorien, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 148–172 | Article
In contemporary working life, art-based initiatives are increasingly used in organizational training and development. For artists, this has created new employment opportunities as creative entrepreneurs who provide specialist services for workplaces. In this article, we study the dynamics of… read more
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