Licoppe2015

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Licoppe2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Licoppe2015
Author(s) Christian Licoppe
Title Video communication and ‘camera actions’: The production of wide video shots in courtrooms with remote defendants
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Tag(s) EMCA, Video-mediated communication, Video Camera, Courtroom Interaction
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Year 2015
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 76
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Pages 117–134
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.11.008
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Abstract

We consider here the use of videoconference for remote testimonies in the courtroom. Based on video recordings of actual hearings with remote participants, we analyze the systematic organization of camera motions in this setting, and show how they constitute interactional moves in their own right, i.e. ‘camera actions’, characteristic of ‘video communication contextures’. We focus on the production of wide shot, as a situated and timed camera-mediated accomplishment in the course of the hearing, and show: (a) how such an accomplishment is sensitive to its sequential environment; (b) how it is accountable as a way to mark the particular relevance of a group of participants with respect to the ongoing talk, and therefore oriented-to as a resource to visually highlight collective forms of speakership or recipiency; (c) how such camera motions are sequentially relevant and sequentially implicative with respect to the ongoing video interaction; (d) how such camera motion, and more generally the video communication ecologies which enable them make visible a particular member's interactional competence, that of being able to recognize the relevance of subtle changes in participation frames, routinely, unreflexively and on the fly.

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