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Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 24] 2021
► pp. 371–401

Chapter 10
Questioning sensory experience

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Article outline
  • 10.1Exploring sensory experience: Revisiting some oppositions
    • 10.1.1Objective/subjective: A problematic couple
    • 10.1.2Worlds of senses, and objectifying subjectivity
      • Lure
      • Introspection
      • Material culture
      • Language and languages
    • 10.1.3Invariance between individual singularities and collective variations
      • Variations as independent variables?
      • Invariants and variations in data analysis
  • 10.2Methodological implications and iterative processes
    • 10.2.1Rephrasing the question
    • 10.2.2An interdisciplinary roadmap
    • 10.2.3Reducing complexity, but not too much
      • 10.2.3.1Who is concerned? How to select the participants?
      • 10.2.3.2You said “context”? Stimulations and stimuli
      • 10.2.3.3The influence of instructions and tasks
      • 10.2.3.4Results and data constitution
    • 10.2.4Ecological validity for the constitution of meaning
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 1 December 2021
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