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Language of touch: Biological aspects of social touch perception and the system of tactile communicative signals
 
PIIS0373658X0008857-1-1
DOI10.31857/S0373658X0008857-1
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Anton A. Varlamov 
Affiliation: Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Anna N. Kravchenko
Affiliation: Trinity College
Address: Ireland, Dublin
Aleksandra V. Gorbacheva
Affiliation: Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Mikhail A. Osadchiy
Affiliation: Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameVoprosy Jazykoznanija
EditionIssue 2
Pages75-92
Abstract

Social touch interactions and touch communication have gained much attention due to the recent discovery of C-tactile system in human: a separate sensory system serving a sole purpose of affiliating people socially and emotionally by providing unconditional positive reinforcement to human gentle touch. The present article is a multidisciplinary research aimed to integrate current frameworks and models of touch communication and to establish a semiotic model and classification of touch gestures.

Keywordsaffective touch, gestures, multimodal linguistics, phatic function, perception, semiotics, touch gestures
AcknowledgmentThe research was funded by Russian Government contract, project 25.9502.2017/БЧ, “A cross-cultural study of tactile communication: linguistic, social, and psycho-emotional aspects”.
Received20.11.2018
Publication date25.06.2020
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