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  Mizukawa, Yoshifumi (Hokusei Gakuen University)

One Action with Two Bodies : Assisting People with Disabilities as Collaborative Work

This paper studies interaction of the instruction for personal assistance work as collaborative one, focusing on membership categorization devices and sequential organization of conversation and body movement. Personal assistance work, kaijo in Japanese, has been central topic in worldwide Independent Living movement of people with disabilities. In IL philosophy, personal assistants are not taking care of the person but assisting activities which the person wants to do. For example, washing his/her mouse is bodily done by the assistant but we can describe that the person with disability is washing mouse. One action seems to be done with two collaborative bodies. First, using video data, this paper focuses on sequential organization in personal assistance work (kaijo) by comparison with care work (kaigo), contrasting their category-bound activities. Second, this paper examines instruction setting for kaijo, referring the educational sequence which H. Mehan and others stated, initiation- response-evaluation (IRE), and explicates how the juxtaposition of kaijo sequence and IRE one works with categories in the interaction. With some analysis of video data, this paper demonstrates how instructions for proper personal assistance work are accomplished thorough experienced practices using sequential and categorical organization.