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Animals and Social Interaction [Call Open 2023]

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Abstract Submission Deadline 31 August 2023
Manuscript Submission Deadline 16 December 2023

Frontiers in Sociology: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/53311/animals-and-social-interaction

Call for papers:

Recent developments in understanding how social interaction is organized emphasize non-human animals as full-fledged participants that actively engage in the unfolding of interaction, and also when the other participant is human. In earlier ethnomethodologically oriented conversation analysis, non-human animals were mostly treated as speakers’ resources in human-to-human conversations, until it was shown that non-human animals actually organize social interaction together with humans, through non-verbal means. This opens up a new perspective that enables researchers to focus on the ways in which the participants orient to each other and the ongoing interspecies interaction, as the different semiotic systems intertwine. At the same time, this approach often remains agnostic regarding the actual properties of the animal mind. The studies on social interaction elaborate on the sequentiality of events occurring on the surface of interaction.

As we come across members of other species in a variety of contexts in our societies, more needs to be known about the social dynamics of more-than-human interaction. Domesticated species such as dogs, cats, cows, horses, and different types of parrots, are known to be very competent actors in social interaction involving humans. Social interaction between humans and non-domesticated species, e.g., urban and garden birds, remains largely unstudied. Analyzing different types of interspecies encounters will add to our understanding of the extent of social interaction in multispecies environments. It has been suggested that turn-taking is a universal practice organizing interaction among humans. According to studies on coordinated animal exchanges, it goes beyond human communication and can be found in many non-human species' interactions. What happens in turn-taking and the overall co-construction of understanding when species meet?

For this Research Topic, we are looking for research articles that address the relations between human and non-human animals in social interaction. Authors can present supplementary material (e.g., video and audiotaped materials) and transcribe and analyze these with appropriate methods provided by conversation analysis, interactional studies (e.g., in ethology), or linguistics.

Suggested topics may include the following but are not limited to these:

• Non-human animals using their vocalizations when interacting with humans and humans answering to them, perhaps imitating animals.
• Organizing interspecies activities: playing, walking, hunting, eating, working, resting.
• The importance of gaze contact, distance, and touching in Human-Animal encounters: according to recent studies, shared gaze and touching are likely to increase positive feelings also in interspecies dyads.
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hal-04121793 , version 1 (08-06-2023)

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Mika Simonen, Rea Peltola. Animals and Social Interaction [Call Open 2023]. 2023. ⟨hal-04121793⟩
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