The role of trust in binding the perspectives of guide dogs and their visually impaired handlers

Building on anthropological discussions of perspectivism and (zoo)semiotic accounts of sign use by humans and other animals, the article explores the cooperation of a guide dog and its visually impaired handler as contingent on the mutual adjustment of two individual perspectives. A perspective is d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riin Magnus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2014-12-01
Series:Sign Systems Studies
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/15862