Orchestrating Multi‐sensoriality in Tasting Sessions: Sensing Bodies, Normativity, and Language

Mondada, Lorenza

doi:10.1002/symb.472

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“…Liberman 2013; Mondada 2018, 2020a, 2020b). The more formal tasting sessions found in Mondada's work are notably silent and lacking in any gustatory mmms , though orchestrated in terms of the coordination of embodied aspects (Mondada 2020b). Another notable difference is with regards to eye gaze, since it was the mutual eye gaze of both parent and infant that was a consistent characteristic of many of these tasting moments.…”

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Enacting Gustatory Pleasure on Behalf of Another: The Multimodal Coordination of Infant Tasting Practices

Wiggins

Keevallik

2020

Symbolic Interaction

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Tasting as a social practice can be enacted on behalf of others through precisely positioned nonlexical vocalizations as gustatory mmms. This paper uses multimodal interaction analysis to detail the coordination of parents and infants while starting to feed solid foods; data are from families in Scotland. The analysis focuses on the organization of parental mmms in relation to eye gaze, sequentiality, and the temporal coordination of hands, food, and mouths to demonstrate their use in beginning, continuing, and refocusing on taste. The paper proposes that in order to fully understand the sociality of tasting, infant feeding research should include real‐time vocal and embodied behavior, which is also key to the functional analysis of sensoriality‐related vocalizations at the margins of language.

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Enacting Gustatory Pleasure on Behalf of Another: The Multimodal Coordination of Infant Tasting Practices

Wiggins

Keevallik

2020

Symbolic Interaction

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“…In all the cases, the experts were members of the Organizzazione Nazionale degli Assaggiatori di Formaggio (ONAF), practicing the same techniques of tasting. The sessions have been video recorded by Giolo Fele and myself in Trento (see Mondada and Fele 2020) and by myself (Mondada 2020b) in terms of the articulation between grammar and more in Bellinzona. Several cameras and microphones were used with the informed consent of the trainees and the organizers.…”

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“…While research on sensoriality is just emerging in ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and interactional linguistics (Mondada 2019a(Mondada , 2021, it has a firmly established tradition in psycholinguistics and cognitive sciences (Levinson and Majid 2014;Majid 2021). In the former, the in situ sensory practices and the conditions for producing descriptions of sound, visual, haptic, olfactory, or tasting features in embodied activities of sensing are the focus (Liberman 2013;Mondada 2018a, Fele 2019Mondada 2020a;Mondada 2020bMondada , 2021. In the latter, the main focus is on the lexical forms that subjects produce when sensing some sample within an elicitation task.…”

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Language and the Sensing Body: How Sensoriality Permeates Syntax in Interaction

Mondada

2021

Front. Commun.

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This article explores the grammar-body interface by examining the intertwinement of embodied practices and turns at talk, where the sensing body permeates the ongoing syntax, in particular in activities in which the participants are engaged in talking about sensorial features while at the same time experiencing them, for instance in tasting sessions. So, the question tackled concerns how situated feelings, sensory experiences, and perceptive actions are embedded in the ongoing talk, and how they shape its emergent syntax, possibly affecting its smooth progressivity. The study shows how the choice of specific syntactic formats can be systematically related to the complex ecology of embodied actions, namely to publicly accountable ways of sensing material objects, to ways of showing and addressing an audience, and to visible ways of referring to standard documents normatively defining tasting descriptors. The syntactic formats described and their specific temporal realizations are thus deeply rooted in the local material ecology, in which they not only reproduce a normative model but reflexively express the senses with words and sensuously feel the words.

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“…While multimodal analyses have highlighted the plurality of linguistic and embodied resources mobilized by participants to build the accountability of their action in interaction, the analysis of multisensoriality focuses on the fact that body and language are not only in service of the intelligibility of social interaction but are also involved in experiencing the world through the senses. Sensoriality has often been considered as a private, subjective, and internal experience; a social interaction approach to sensoriality reveals how sensing in an interaction is designed in a way that makes it inter-subjectively intelligible and publicly accountable (Mondada, 2018a(Mondada, , 2020(Mondada, , 2021a(Mondada, , 2021b.…”

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Appealing to the senses: Approaching, sensing, and interacting at the market’s stall

Mondada

2022

Discourse & Communication

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Sensorial access to products in shop encounters constitutes a crucial aspect of the appeal to customers. This paper examines sensorial engagements with products in a specific ecology (outdoor markets) with a focus on the possible (pre)opening of a shop encounter. When passers-by stroll from one stand to another, open to local findings, unplanned discoveries, and emergent opportunities to buy, they orient to the sensory appeal of the products, becoming possible customers, stopping in front of a counter and engaging in a social interaction with sellers and other customers. The analysis focuses on multisensoriality in action, studying how customers and sellers treat the sensorial qualities of the products, the relevance of the sensory engagement of the customer with their materiality, and their involvement in the social encounter with the seller, including normative expectations related to sensing and buying. It includes a discussion of how under Covid-19 sensorial access to products was restricted and the sensorial, interactional, normative, and economic consequences of these restrictions. Based on video recordings of market encounters, and on an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach of multimodality and multisensoriality, the paper reflects on how appealing to the senses of sight, touch, smell, and taste is methodically orchestrated, and its consequences for the interaction with the seller, the sensorial experience, and the economic transaction.

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Orchestrating Multi‐sensoriality in Tasting Sessions: Sensing Bodies, Normativity, and Language

Cited by 31 publications

References 35 publications

Enacting Gustatory Pleasure on Behalf of Another: The Multimodal Coordination of Infant Tasting Practices

Enacting Gustatory Pleasure on Behalf of Another: The Multimodal Coordination of Infant Tasting Practices

Language and the Sensing Body: How Sensoriality Permeates Syntax in Interaction

Appealing to the senses: Approaching, sensing, and interacting at the market’s stall

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