Touch in Social Interaction : Touch, Language, and Body (Paperback)

List of contributors 1. Introduction Asta Cekaite and Lorenza Mondada 2. The Interactive Construction of a Hug Sequence Marjorie Harness Goodwin 3. The tactility and visibility of kissing: Intercorporeal configurations of kissing bodies in family photography sessions Lorenza Mondada, David Monteiro, and Burak S. Tekin 4. Touch as embodied compassion in responses to pain and distress Asta Cekaite 5. Control touch in caregiver-child interaction: Embodied organization in triadic mediation of peer conflict in Swedish and Japanese Matthew Burdelski and Asta Cekaite 6. When a dance hold becomes illegitimate Leelo Keevallik 7. To touch and to be touched: The coordination of touching-whole-body-movements in Aikido practice Augustin Lefebvre 8. Touching and petting: exploring "haptic sociality" in interspecies interaction Chloe Mondeme 9. Professional touch in speech and language therapy for the treatment of post-stroke aphasia Sara Merlino 10. Guided touch: The sequential organization of feeling a fetus in Japanese midwifery practices Aug Nishizaka 11. Passing touch: handing and handling tools and implements during surgical procedures Christian Heath and Paul Luff 12. Calibrating professional perception through touch in geological fieldworkCharles Goodwin & Mick Sean Smith 13. Sensorial explorations of food: How professionals and amateurs touch cheese in gourmet shops Lorenza Mondada 14. Epilogue Christian Meyer & Jurgen Streeck Index