Touch in social interaction: touch, language and body

"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, institutio...

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Weitere Verfasser: Cekaite, Asta 1972- (HerausgeberIn), Mondada, Lorenza 1963- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:ix, 333 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781138541986
9781138541931