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Orchestrating Multi‐sensoriality in Tasting Sessions: Sensing Bodies, Normativity, and Language
Author(s) -
Mondada Lorenza
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1002/symb.472
Subject(s) - wine tasting , materiality (auditing) , ethnomethodology , conversation , conversation analysis , linguistics , modal , psychology , object (grammar) , multimodality , communication , aesthetics , epistemology , visual arts , art , philosophy , wine , chemistry , polymer chemistry
This article develops an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach of sensuous practices based on video materials and multi‐modal analyses. Focusing on professional training in cheese tasting in Italy, the article shows the interplay between the bodily sensorial access to a material object and verbal descriptions of its sensorial qualities. Sensorial experience is not only configured as the body touching, smelling, or tasting a sample, nor simply orchestrated as a response following an authorized instruction; it is organized by multiple sociomaterial resources, including tasting grids as textual artifacts for enhancing and disciplining the senses. The article proposes a praxeological and interactional approach of sensoriality that integrates bodies, language, materiality, and normativity.