Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives on embodiment, this paper advances a “biolinguistic” approach to ethnographic research on intimacy, attending simultaneously to the co-constitutive interactive, psychophysiological, and phenomenological processes that emerge in everyday embodied interaction between long-term, cohabitating romantic partners. Through concurrent attention to natural interactions captured during video ethnography and moment-to-moment shifts in heart-rate variability, this study complements and complicates existing psychological, communication, and anthropological research on intimacy. Three case-studies of long-term couples residing in the Southeastern United States demonstrate how neither pure psychophysiology nor pure linguistic analysis fully encapsulates potential patterns of intimacy among them. Rather, this microanalytical, biolinguistic approach to the complexities of body and language interplay, in treating embodiment and interaction as bidirectional phenomena, emphasizes that meanings and enactments of intimacy might look different for each couple and can change over time in complex ways that index couples’ enduring orientations towards various cultural and relational norms.

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在日常互动中体现亲密感：对美国东南部长期伴侣的生物语言学研究

本文借鉴语言学和生物文化人类学对具身化的观点，提出了一种“生物语言学”方法来进行亲密关系的民族志研究，同时关注长期同居的日常具身互动中出现的共同构成的互动、心理生理学和现象学过程。浪漫的伴侣。通过同时关注视频民族志中捕捉到的自然互动和心率变异性的即时变化，这项研究补充了现有的关于亲密关系的心理学、沟通和人类学研究，并使之复杂化。对居住在美国东南部的长期夫妻的三个案例研究表明，纯粹的心理生理学和纯粹的语言分析都无法完全概括他们之间潜在的亲密模式。相反，这种对身体和语言相互作用的复杂性的微观分析、生物语言学方法，将体现和互动视为双向现象，强调亲密的意义和表现对于每对夫妇来说可能看起来不同，并且可以随着时间的推移以复杂的方式发生变化，从而索引夫妻的关系。对各种文化和关系规范的持久取向。