The ‘interrogative gaze’

Abstract This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and this interaction invokes an implied order behaviour that treated as ‘typical’ ‘accountably representative’ communication. invoked will be called interrogative gaze . orientation to action, one used a jointly managed interpretative schema allows talked understood rationally, purposively collaboratively undertaken in particular, ‘known common’ ways. applies irrespective whether the actions question are prospective (are happen) or have been past being accounted for present ‘generally case’ – current talk. The shows constitutive device also aids sense making through such things topic management video-mediated interaction, elaborating salience relationship between patterned governance social affairs viz, mother-daughter, friend-friend normatively achieved outcomes. It shown variously appropriate consequentially not just terms what done call calls accountable, but helping articulate different orders connection persons, these implications sensible calling hence, type persons who involved. This, turn, explains decision avoid using made accountably reasonable thing do. relevance findings sociology everyday life philosophy action explored.