“I Am Not a Computer”: A Multimodal Co-construction of Justice in a Real Jury Deliberation

Abstract This is the first multimodal analysis of a real—not mock or hypothetical—jury deliberation and consists of two parts. The first part investigates the interactive contours of laughter and how it integrates with co-speech gesture to provide an authoritative stance to the juror’s narrative. The second part examines the multimodal interplay among poetics, gesture, and stance in pursuit of justice during deliberation. Rather than consider justice as an abstract or theoretical concept I demonstrate how it circulates in and through embodied conduct.