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Publication details [#53357]

Licoppe, Christian and Laurence Dumoulin. 2010. The “Curious Case” of an Unspoken Opening Speech Act: A Video-Ethnography of the Use of Video Communication in Courtroom Activities. Research on Language and Social Interaction 43 (1) : 211–231.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | ethnography | formulaic expression | speech act | video

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper discusses the findings of an ethnographic analysis of court hearings in which participants are located at two distant sites, but linked by videoconference. It focuses on details of opening sequences, and especially on one divergent case in which the presiding judge did not open the court hearing with the expected traditional, formulaic speech act .