Sensing in Social Interaction - The Taste for Cheese in Gourmet Shops

This book offers a conceptual, methodological, and analytical approach to how people engage with their senses in social interaction.

List of contents

Part I. Sensoriality in Interaction: 1. From the senses to sensing in interaction; 2. Methodology; Part II. Looking and Knowing: 3. Looking for a cheese; 4. Asking for a cheese: the calibration of looking and knowing; Part III. Sensing Together: 5. Touching: professional and lay touch; 6. Smelling: professional and lay smell; Part IV. Tasting, Assessing and Making decisions: 7. Requests and offers to taste: the sequential environment of tasting; 8. The anatomy of tasting; 9. The outcome of tasting: assessing and decision-making; 10. Conclusion.

About the author

Lorenza Mondada is internationally recognized for her work in social interaction. She is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Summary

This book offers a novel perspective on how people sense the materiality of the world together. It introduces a new methodology for how to think about sensing in social interaction, featuring fascinating empirical case studies dealing with how people sense and react to food in gourmet cheese shops across Europe.

Additional text

'Lorenza Mondada presents a new and profoundly exciting conception of sensorial engagements in social interaction. She uses that conception for an empirical analysis of sensorial practices within courses of actions. Her exceptionally insightful work serves as a model for future conversation analytic and ethnomethodological studies of multi-sensoriality studies.' Anita Pomerantz, Professor Emeritus of Communication, University at Albany, USA

Product details

• Authors: Lorenza Mondada, Lorenza (Universitat Basel Mondada, Mondada Lorenza
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108484251
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48425-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Social issues & processes, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and ethical issues, Cultural studies: food and society