Rasmus Persson

Rasmus Persson serves as Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in General Linguistics at Uppsala University's Department of Linguistics and Philology. His research focuses on conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and French language studies with particular emphasis on talk-in-interaction phenomena.

His research interests center on the intricate relationship between linguistic form and social interaction, specifically examining:

• Turn-taking systems and sequential organization in conversation
• French pragmatic markers and response tokens
• Prosody-grammar interfaces in interactional contexts
• Epistemic management through linguistic upgrades/downgrades
• Multimodal analysis of conversational practices

His work bridges theoretical linguistics with empirical analysis of naturally occurring interaction.

Persson's publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to conversation analysis literature, particularly through his 2023 encyclopedia entries for ISCA and multiple studies on French interactional practices. His research shows strong thematic continuity in analyzing how speakers manage inference confirmation, turn allocation, and epistemic stance through linguistic resources.

While no formal awards are documented in the provided materials, his work appears in respected venues including Language in Society and John Benjamins publications.

Persson actively contributes to methodological development in interactional research, co-authoring Swedish-language methodology texts on multimodal interaction analysis. His technical expertise includes phonetic transcription, interactional data recording, and multimodal analysis techniques.

Research infrastructure includes active participation in the International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA), with contributions to their terminology encyclopedia project. His work connects with broader European conversation analysis traditions through focus on Romance language interaction.