Chapter published in:
Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life
Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
[Benjamins Current Topics 103] 2019
► pp. 51–86

Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’

The sequential organization of video-mediated conversation openings

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Analysis
    • 2.1Pre-beginnings and the collaborative assemblage of a social scene for video-mediated encounters
    • 2.2Multiple greetings
    • 2.3Analyzing various actual instances of multiple greetings in the opening of Skype conversations
    • 2.4Multiple greetings and the embedding of video-mediated communication in larger communicative ecologies
    • 2.5Not only appearing, but appearing in a certain way
    • 2.6A subtly orchestrated choreography of multimodal appearances and greetings
    • 2.7‘This is not to be seen as the beginning’: Designing visual appearances and greetings so as to neutralize some of their sequential implications
    • 2.8A sequentially frustrating succession of finely coordinated appearances and withdrawals
    • 2.9Actually beginning the video conversation: A third greeting sequence
  • 3.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 13 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.103.03lic
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