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3 - Looking for a Cheese

from Part II - Looking and Knowing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2021

Lorenza Mondada
Affiliation:
Universität Basel, Switzerland
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Entering the gourmet cheese shop, the customer is confronted with dozens and sometimes hundreds of different cheeses. This chapter discusses how the search, identification, and selection of a possible buyable is accomplished, through actions that characterize the beginning of the purchase and that are consequential for the possibility (or not) to engage in a closer sensorial exploration of the materiality of the cheese. The first access to the cheese products is distant, characterized by sighting, looking and starring, within actions that either display the customer knows what they want or not. Chapter 3 shows how customers not knowing what they want look around in the shop asking for advice or/and then adopt a focused look on one product and ask questions about it. These actions constitute a praxeological, interactional and sensorial context that emergently projects the relevance of a closer examination of the materiality of cheese.

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Sensing in Social Interaction
The Taste for Cheese in Gourmet Shops
, pp. 115 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Looking for a Cheese
  • Lorenza Mondada, Universität Basel, Switzerland
  • Book: Sensing in Social Interaction
  • Online publication: 21 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108650090.005
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  • Looking for a Cheese
  • Lorenza Mondada, Universität Basel, Switzerland
  • Book: Sensing in Social Interaction
  • Online publication: 21 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108650090.005
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  • Looking for a Cheese
  • Lorenza Mondada, Universität Basel, Switzerland
  • Book: Sensing in Social Interaction
  • Online publication: 21 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108650090.005
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