L’anticipation comme actualisation

Abstract

It is commonly said that anticipation is a phenomenon that precedes a given action or situation, both timewise and logically speaking. In this article, we focus in detail on how anticipation reconfigures the action anticipated. By ‘in detail’, we mean through the meticulous observation and analysis of ordinary interactions. The corpus is constituted of learning interactions between trainer and dogs in training, in which anticipating an action, particularly by assessing it ahead of time, contributes to a great extent to (re) configure it. This point leads us to develop a pragmatic conception of action, seen as an emerging and collaborative process accomplished collectively.

Keywords

• training
• Anticipation
• pragmatism
• learning
• moral order
• interactional analysis