Simonen2021

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Simonen2021
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Simonen2021
Author(s) Mika Simonen, Hannes Lohi
Title Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction
Editor(s) Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä, Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation analysis, Intersubjectivity
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2021
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 397-428
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Book title Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction
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Abstract

This chapter explores the potential existence of interactional reciprocity in human–dog interactions by analyzing experimental data on situations where dog owners fail to produce reciprocally modified actions for two minutes. We found that their dogs soon realized the strangeness of the situation. While they pursued missing feedback with touch, gaze and vocalizations, they also addressed other humans and requested their attention. Therefore, the dogs oriented to the lack of reciprocity and attempted to repair it. We demonstrate that interactional reciprocity in human–dog interactions can be breached, thus proving its existence. Moreover, we show that it also returned when the experiment ended. The findings are compared with mother–infant experiments where evidence of interactional reciprocity has also been found.

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