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Touch in Social Interaction: Touch, Language, and Body

Touch in Social Interaction: Touch, Language, and Body

Paperback

LinguisticsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138541982
ISBN13: 9781138541986
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 16 2020
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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