Author name: Elira Voskrensen
Elira Voskrensen holds a Ph.D. in Discourse Studies from the University of Helsinki and has spent over a decade analyzing multilingual conversational dynamics in diplomatic, healthcare, and AI-mediated settings. A certified Conversation Analyst (CA-Cert ’14), she integrates ethnographic fieldwork with computational linguistics to explore how silence, turn-taking, and repair mechanisms shape human understanding across cultures.