Alena L. Vasilyeva

My general research interests include deliberation, conflict management, social identity, culture, communication design, and the coordination of actions in personal and public contexts. Of particular interest is how a specific form of interactivity is constructed through the use of language, argument, interactional resources, in view of different constraints the interaction imposes; what is the interrelationship of reasoning and activity, how this activity is constitutive of identity, and what are culturally specific and context-specific practices. My recent research investigated the construction of deliberative activity in the course of dispute mediation.