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BibType | INCOLLECTION |
Key | Mondeme2023b |
Author(s) | Chloé Mondémé |
Title | Shared intelligibility in interactions between visually impaired people and guide dogs |
Editor(s) | Brian L. Due |
Tag(s) | EMCA, Visual Impairment, Dogs |
Publisher | Routledge |
Year | 2023 |
Language | English |
City | London |
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Pages | 49–68 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.4324/9781003156819-3 |
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Book title | The Practical Accomplishment of Everyday Activities Without Sight |
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Abstract
Walking together, for a pair composed of a visually impaired person and a guide dog, constitutes a perspicuous example of interspecies joint action. Achieving mutual understanding in this context may be a long process. This chapter focuses on one of its fundamental phases, known as “adaptation”, in which the dog’s instructor supervises the pairing of a newly trained guide dog with a visually impaired person, teaching both how to team up with their new partner. Drawing on a collection of video-recorded instructional sequences, this chapter will explore how interspecies shared intelligibility emerges, and how making sense of animal behaviour – for both visually impaired and sighted people – is a practical achievement.
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