Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair

Hessen, Raphaela; Fröhlich, Marlen; Sievers, Christine; Woensdregt, Marieke; Dingemanse, Mark (2022). Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. Series B - biological sciences, 377(1859) Royal Society of London 10.1098/rstb.2021.0110

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Human joint action is inherently cooperative, manifested in the collaborative efforts of participants to minimize communicative trouble through interactive repair. Although interactive repair requires sophisticated cognitive abilities, it can be dissected into basic building blocks shared with nonhuman animal species. A review of the primate literature shows that interactionally contingent signal sequences are at least common among species of nonhuman great apes, suggesting a gradual evolution of repair. To pioneer a cross-species assessment of repair this paper aims at (i) identifying necessary precursors of human interactive repair; (ii) proposing a coding framework for its comparative study in humans and nonhuman species; and (iii) using this framework to analyse examples of interactions of humans (adults/children) and nonhuman great apes. We hope this paper will serve as a primer for cross-species comparisons on dealing with communicative breakdowns.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg)

UniBE Contributor:

Sievers, Christine

Subjects:

100 Philosophy

ISSN:

0962-8436

Publisher:

Royal Society of London

Language:

English

Submitter:

Christine Sievers

Date Deposited:

07 Feb 2022 09:35

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:04

Publisher DOI:

10.1098/rstb.2021.0110

Additional Information:

Preprint: http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/35hzt

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/164633

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/164633

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