Full 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.
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
Chloé Mondémé
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 Jürgen Streeck
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