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Articles

Audible Sniffs: Smelling-in-Interaction

Pages 140-163 | Published online: 05 Mar 2020
 

ABSTRACT

This article contributes to the study of nonlexical sound resources in social interaction by describing sniffs as sounds made by the body that have a physiological origin but also assume an interactional relevance: sniffing sounds made by participants when smelling. On the basis of a video-recorded tasting session in which participants engage in describing aromas, the article details the systematic organization of sniffing in a diversity of sequential environments—in which sniff-prefaced turns offer aroma descriptions in response to olfactory inquiries, confirm previous descriptions, and give alternative descriptions. Analyzing audible sounds made while visibly smelling in face-to-face interaction, the article’s aims are twofold: to contribute to the multimodal study of sounds in interaction and also to the study of sensoriality as an intersubjective practice through the systematic investigation of smelling-in-interaction. Data are in French with English translation and multimodal annotations.

Transcription conventions

Talk has been transcribed using Jefferson’s (Citation2004) conventions and multimodality with Mondada’s (Citation2018b) conventions (see https://www.lorenzamondada.net/multimodal-transcription).

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Funding

This study is conducted within the project From Multimodality to Multisensoriality: Language, Body, and Sensoriality in Social Interaction (intSenses), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2018-2022) (PI L. Mondada).

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