1. Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’
- Author
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Christian Licoppe
- Subjects
060201 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Communication ,020205 medical informatics ,Dance ,business.industry ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,06 humanities and the arts ,02 engineering and technology ,Language and Linguistics ,Sequential organization ,Philosophy ,Conversation analysis ,Index (publishing) ,0602 languages and literature ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Frame (artificial intelligence) ,Conversation ,Relevance (information retrieval) ,business ,media_common - Abstract
This paper analyses the organization of ‘openings’ in Skype video-mediated conversation. It uncovers order in their apparent complexity by showing the relevance of a particular sequential adjacent pair organization, the appearing/noticing sequence, and its particular instantiation as an appearance-for-the-first-time greeting. The paper shows how this is a crucial resource in establishing a joint video interactional frame for the parties involved. This accounts for the occurrence of some specific phenomena in Skype openings, such as multiple greetings, and for the use of greetings which reflexively index their being occasioned by an appearance and related greeting, such as the French ‘coucou’, even when these do not occur at the start of Skype calls. When analysed this way, Skype openings, though complex, can be seen as an accomplished ‘dance of appearances and multiple greetings’.
- Published
- 2022