{"title":"The interactive construction of a hug sequence","authors":"M. Goodwin","doi":"10.4324/9781003026631-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003026631-2","url":null,"abstract":"The hug or embrace, entailing in its trajectory a form of intercorporeal intertwining of body and voice, is a haptic confi guration used in constituting the activities of both greetings as well as closings (farewells) – “boundary interchanges” in Goffman’s (1971 ) terms. In performing an embrace, an action critical to the affective life of families ( Goodwin and Cekaite 2018 ) and friends, the display of emotion is a situated practice ( Goodwin et al. 2012 ), as critical as the sequential organization of the activity. C. Goodwin (1979 ) demonstrated that the shape of an utterance depends upon the moment-to-moment responses of recipients during its trajectory. Similar practices are involved in interactions entailing hugs. While Goodwin’s analysis chronicled how new segments of talk can be added to a speaker’s emerging sentence, in this chapter I analyze how in the midst of interaction a participant can add new haptic actions to achieve collaborative action. I illustrate how the hug, as a “sequence of action” ( Schegloff 2007 , 11) entailing corporeal resources rather than talk as its basic units of construction, is produced as an interactive achievement ( Schegloff 1987 ). The hug is often solicited by outstretched arms, an iconic gesture which invites and models a reciprocal action from the addressee. Talk often overlays or laminates the gestural confi guration of the hug rather than being the principal medium through which the interchange is carried out. 1","PeriodicalId":273705,"journal":{"name":"Touch in Social Interaction","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133952602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guided touch","authors":"Aug Nishizaka","doi":"10.4324/9781003026631-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003026631-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273705,"journal":{"name":"Touch in Social Interaction","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124461028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passing touch","authors":"C. Heath, P. Luff","doi":"10.4324/9781003026631-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003026631-11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273705,"journal":{"name":"Touch in Social Interaction","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132114849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}