Designing Talk for Humans and Horses: Prosody as a Resource for Parallel Recipient Design

Reed, Beatrice Szczepek

doi:10.1080/08351813.2023.2170638

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“…Eva is verbally responding to Lisa, her intonation contours and phonetic choices, as well as her embodied behavior (approaching the dog and grasping her muzzle), show that the turn is jointly recipient designed to two different co-present audiences: the human participant and the dog. We thereby see the entanglement of different participation frameworks already documented in previous research involving interaction with nonhuman animals (Harjunpää, 2022;Szczepek-Reed, 2023). But, in addition, we can observe here the crucial role of the dog's gaze on the organization of speakership and participation.…”

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Gaze in Interspecies Human–Pet Interaction: Some Exploratory Analyses

Mondémé

2023

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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This article examines video-recorded naturally occurring human-pet interactions during which the animal's gaze is treated as an allocational device by the human participant. Gaze exchange has been extensively studied as the social phenomenon par excellence, especially by scientific paradigms interested in defining sociality as mutual orientation (Simmel, 1921;Goodwin, 2006).Recently, studies in social cognition have shown the relevance of doing sequential analyses of gaze exchanges in animal interactions, providing important information on the "monitoring function" of gaze. However, less is known about the "regulatory function" (i.e., the effect of animal gaze on the sequential organization of action) in human-animal interspecies interactions. This article aims to fill this gap, by investigating the role of domestic dogs', cats', and horses' gazes on human conversation and courses of action. Findings demonstrate a systematic format: an animal-initiated gaze is followed by a verbal turn of the human participant, which evidences the turn-allocational function of the animal's gaze on human participation.

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Gaze in Interspecies Human–Pet Interaction: Some Exploratory Analyses

Mondémé

2023

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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Horse-directed vocalizations: Clicks, trills, and /ho:/

Szczepek Reed

2025

Language & Communication

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The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows

Cornips

2024

Lang. Soc.

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This article moves from the familiar—the human—to the very different in sociolinguistics—the dairy cow. Based on multispecies ethnography, the aim of this article is to advocate the animal turn in sociolinguistics (Cornips 2019). The guiding question is how do non-human animals, that is, dairy cows—mutually and with humans—imbue their intraspecies and interspecies interaction with meaning that makes sense for the two species. The concept of semiotic repertoire is invoked in order to investigate how dairy cows draw on resources to make meaning, and the concept of material-semiotic assemblage is applied in order to account for the different effects generated by the resources that come together at particular moments. The assemblage perspective does not take a ‘cow’ or ‘human’ as discrete and fixed but focuses on the distributed and emergent agency as a relational effect of all elements involved: humans, non-humans, and other. (Intraspecies and interspecies interactions, the semiotic repertoire, assemblage, dairy cows, practices)*

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Designing Talk for Humans and Horses: Prosody as a Resource for Parallel Recipient Design

Cited by 6 publications

References 61 publications

Gaze in Interspecies Human–Pet Interaction: Some Exploratory Analyses

Gaze in Interspecies Human–Pet Interaction: Some Exploratory Analyses

Horse-directed vocalizations: Clicks, trills, and /ho:/

The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows

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