Rossano2023
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Rossano2023 |
| Author(s) | Federico Rossano |
| Title | How to study interactional history in non-human animals? Challenges and opportunities |
| Editor(s) | Pentti Haddington, Tiina Eilittä, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen, Anna Vatanen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 21–41 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003424888-3 |
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| Book title | Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies |
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Abstract
Recent work on the role played by interactional history in action formation in humans has provided novel insights on how to tackle the problem of change. Simultaneously, current observational research on animal behaviour relies on coding methods (e.g., the ethogram) that hinder detecting how behaviours change through time. This chapter discusses ways in which the communicative behaviours of non-human animals (great apes in particular) can be studied through a conversation analytic lens, maintaining a strong social interactional grounding. Critical to this endeavour are the sequential organisation of social action and the “next-turn proof procedure”. Presenting longitudinal data from mother–infant bonobo dyads, this chapter shows how signal formation and behavioural change can be detected. It outlines two practices infant bonobos used to request mothers to be carried and their evolution: 1) Originally responsive action produced in the first position, and 2) Shortening and speeding up. Methodologically it proposes to start by first identifying the social activities participants are striving to achieve (e.g., carrying, grooming, playing) and then look retrospectively to identify all the behavioural practices that these same individuals used to successfully partake in them. This analytical switch allows us to investigate signal change more systematically and expand the investigation of interactional histories to non-human animals.
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