Author name: Elara Voskian
Elara Voskian holds a PhD in Interactional Linguistics from the University of Helsinki and has spent 12 years coding naturally occurring talk across 17 languages for the Global Conversation Archive. She co-developed the Multimodal Turn-Transition Framework and trains forensic linguists in discourse-based deception detection. A former field researcher with UNHCR, she specializes in asymmetrical institutional talk—especially in healthcare and refugee resettlement contexts.
