Sensing in Social Interaction

'This is a remarkable and engaging study of the ways in which sense and sensibility are constituted in and through social interaction. Mondada explores the knowledge, culture, and practice that underpins how we look at, smell, touch, taste and experience fine food. It is a careful and insightful analysis of service encounters that makes an important and wide-ranging contribution to our understanding of language, multimodality and embodied action.' Christian Heath, Professor of Work and Interaction, King's College London, UK 'This book is a must-read for any social scientist wishing to take the analysis of sensory practice in social interaction seriously. With a sophisticated visual approach spanning multiple languages and cultural settings, Mondada achieves a monumental overview of how different sensorial experiences in cheese shops are arranged, made public, and accounted for.' Cristina Grasseni, Professor of Anthropology Contacts and Webpages, Leiden University, the Netherlands '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 'This text is well-documented in both theoretical background and methodological foundations, presenting numerous empirical data samples together with their context and subsequent analysis … Advanced courses addressing embodiment studies, anthropology of sensing, or interdisciplinary theory studies and graduate-level social science methodology courses will find a good fit for this book in the curriculum as an exemplary, rigorous case study … Highly recommended.' S. M. Weiss, Choice Connect