Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
As part of the Bayreuth Food and Language lecture series, Wiggins gave a talk on "Eating sounds: At the edges of language, food, and bodies", October 29 2021. Abstract: The sounds we make while eating, or when approaching food as an edible substance, are a ubiquitous but often overlooked phenomenon. Considered as being at the …
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Wiggins and Keevallik have published a new article on how mothers use 'mm' sounds when feeding their infants, entitled 'Enacting gustatory pleasure on behalf of another: The multimodal coordination of infant tasting practices.' Available in Symbolic Interaction, open access. Abstract: Tasting as a social practice can be enacted on behalf of others through precisely positioned …
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As part of her plenary talk at the Finnish Annual Social Psychology Conference, Wiggins gave an interview to the organization on her work. It is available here (published in Finnish).
Wiggins has published in Frontiers in Psychology on gustatory mmms. (open access!) Moments of pleasure: A preliminary classification of gustatory mmms and the enactment of enjoyment during infant mealtimes The enjoyment of food and the sharing of mealtimes is a normative cultural and social practice. Empirical research on eating enjoyment has, however, been a rather neglected …
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Non-lexical vocalizations 