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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. 475–504

Chapter 13
Procedures and outcomes

Article outline
  • 13.1Setting the stage
    • 13.1.1Targeting sensory experience
    • 13.1.2The social relation between researchers and participants
    • 13.1.3Researchers and participants’ a priori knowledges
    • 13.1.4Playing the game “as if”: Ecological laboratory settings
    • 13.1.5Designing experimental settings
  • 13.2Revisiting classical procedures
    • 13.2.1Instructions as tuned linguistic instruments
      • Eliciting experiential knowledge as autobiographical memory
      • Naming what it is or expressing sensory experience
    • 13.2.2Procedures and methods from social sciences
      • 13.2.2.1Commented walks
      • 13.2.2.2Interviews and surveys
        • Self-confrontation interviews
        • L’entretien d’explicitation or Elicitation interview method
        • Focus groups
    • 13.2.3Adjusting questionnaires to sensory experience
      • Concepts wording and formulation of the questions
      • Generality and specificity of the questions
      • Positive / negative orientation of the questions
      • Activity related questions: Cognition in practices
      • Order of the questions: The induction of answers
    • 13.2.4Scales and semantic differentials
  • 13.3Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 01 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.24.13dub
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