Lorenza Mondada

This book offers a novel perspective on how people engage in sensing the materiality of the world as a way of social interaction. It proposes a conceptual and analytical advance in how to approach sensing as an intersubjective and interactional phenomenon within the framework of conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. Based on a uniquely rich set of video-recorded data, the author shows how people reacting to cheese in gourmet shops across Europe highlights the part the senses play in human behaviour and communication. The multimodal analysis of the case studies reveals the systematic features of looking, touching, smelling, and tasting in situated activities. By blending interdisciplinary research with real life, the volume puts together a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the embodied and linguistic dimensions of sensing in interaction.

This book offers a novel perspective on how people engage in sensing the materiality of the world as a way of social interaction. It proposes a conceptual and analytical advance in how to approach sensing as an intersubjective and interactional phenomenon within the framework of conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. Based on a uniquely rich set of video-recorded data, the author shows how people reacting to cheese in gourmet shops across Europe highlights the part the senses play in human behaviour and communication. The multimodal analysis of the case studies reveals the systematic features of looking, touching, smelling, and tasting in situated activities. By blending interdisciplinary research with real life, the volume puts together a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the embodied and linguistic dimensions of sensing in interaction.

Das Buch gibt einen berblick ber Entstehung und Entwicklung der ethnomethodologisch orientierten Konversationsanalyse, f hrt in die Methodologie der Datengewinnung ein und behandelt detailliert anhand der Analyse franz sischer Gespr chstranskripte die wichtigsten Themen (wie Sprecherwechselsystematik, Reparaturen, Grundformen sequenzieller Organisation, Er ffnung und Beendigung, thematische Organisation, Erz hlinteraktionen). Im Zentrum stehen die grundlegenden konversationsanalytischen Arbeiten (insbesondere von Sacks, Schegloff und Jefferson), es werden aber auch neuere Entwicklungen (Einbeziehung von Prosodie und Multimodalit t) skizziert. Das Buch hat einf hrenden Charakter und vermittelt- nicht zuletzt durch exemplarische Analysen- Grundkenntnisse, die zu eigener Analysearbeit bef higen sollen. Am Ende jedes Kapitels finden sich Arbeitsaufgaben, die die M glichkeit zur Rekapitulation zentraler Begriffe bieten, zu theoretisch-methodologischer Reflexion anregen und Anl sse zur Beobachtung kommunikativer Praxis und zur konversationsanalytischen Bearbeitung von Gespr chsausschnitten geben.