Søren Beck Nielsen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Søren Beck Nielsen is involved.
2025 Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates Pragmatics and Society 16:1, pp. 25–45 | Article
Experimental research recommends that climate change debaters actively contradict misinformation. This study examines discursively how participants do so during prominent televised Danish debates, that is, how they orient towards elements in other participants’ preceding talk about climate… read more
2023 “There is new technology here that can perform miracles”: The discursive psychology of technological optimism in climate change policy debates Journal of Language and Politics 22:6, pp. 826–845 | Article
This paper puts the spotlight on the discursive practices by which politicians, interest group representatives, and other influential public figures in effect promote climate inaction by conveying confidence in technological innovation. Data consist of policy debates on prominent public service… read more
2022 Language psychology Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 826–843 | Chapter
2020 Silence gestures revisited Gesture 19:2/3, pp. 246–268 | Article
This paper revives an interest in a gestural phenomenon: silence gestures, that is, cases where speakers suspend talk and produce a gesture in momentary silence. Earlier research noted this phenomenon, but largely left interactional details unaddressed. Consequently, we have known of the… read more
2018 Language psychology Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Chapter
2014 “I’ll just see what you had before”: Making computer use relevant while patients present their problems Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Article
This chapter focuses on how doctors, during consultations, use computers as objects that serve diagnostic purposes. Specifically, the chapter investigates instances when doctors shift their attention towards their computers while patients present their problems. Such shifts momentarily change the… read more
2014 Medical record keeping as interactional accomplishment Pragmatics and Society 5:2, pp. 221–242 | Article
Medical records are documents of tremendous social importance. They have been the subject of much medical and sociological research, in particular regarding validity, accessibility and readability. This paper uses Conversation Analysis to add an aspect to the understanding of medical records that… read more