Touch in social interaction : touch, language, and body

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Touch in social interaction : touch, language, and body

edited by Asta Cekaite and Lorenza Mondada

Routledge, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. The authors focus on how different forms of touch are interactionally organized in everyday, institutional, and professional practices, showing how touch is multimodally achieved in social interaction, how it acquires its significance, how it is embedded in the current activity and in its social context, and how it is systematically intertwined with talk, facial expressions, and body posture. Including work by a wide range of renowned researchers, this volume provides rich visual illustrations of situations featuring touch as a social and intersubjective practice. The studies make a compelling contribution to the field by clearly examining and demonstrating the social meaning of touch for the participants in social interaction in a broad range of contexts. Presenting a new methodology for the study of touch, this is key reading for all researchers and scholars working in conversation analysis, multimodality, and related areas.

Table of Contents

List of contributors 1. Towards an interactional approach to touch in social encounters Asta Cekaite and Lorenza Mondada 2. The Interactive Construction of a Hug Sequence Marjorie Harness Goodwin 3. The tactility and visibility of kissing: intercorporeal configurations of kissing bodies in family photography sessions Lorenza Mondada, David Monteiro, and Burak S. Tekin 4. Touch as embodied compassion in responses to pain and distress Asta Cekaite 5. Control touch in caregiver-child interaction: embodied organization in triadic mediation of peer conflict in Swedish and Japanese Matthew Burdelski and Asta Cekaite 6. When a dance hold becomes illegitimate Leelo Keevallik 7. To touch and to be touched: the coordination of touching-whole-body-movements in Aikido practice Augustin Lefebvre 8. Touching and petting: exploring "haptic sociality" in interspecies interaction Chloe Mondeme 9. Professional touch in speech and language therapy for the treatment of post-stroke aphasia Sara Merlino 10. Guided touch: the sequential organization of feeling a fetus in Japanese midwifery practices Aug Nishizaka 11. Passing touch: handing and handling tools and implements during surgical procedures Christian Heath and Paul Luff 12. Calibrating professional perception through touch in geological fieldworkCharles Goodwin and Michael Sean Smith 13. Sensorial explorations of food: How professionals and amateurs touch cheese in gourmet shops Lorenza Mondada 14. Ambivalences of touch: an epilogue Christian Meyer and Jurgen Streeck Index

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  • NCID
    BC01169854
  • ISBN
    • 9781138541986
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 333 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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