Teasing as serious business : Collaborative staging and response work

• Teasing can be seen as one of the socializing practices that take place within schools. Yet prior work on teasing has often had a inonological bias. In this study, the dialogic architecture of teasing sequences in pupils' work groups at school is analyzed in detail-covering both the collaborative staging of teasing, and the response work that teasing brings about. Teasing can be seen as a way of controlling norm transgressions, and response work is therefore a contingent aspect of teasing. The findings show that pupils employ a rich repertoire of response strategies: account work, denial, minimal responses, playing along with the teasing, retaliation, and proactive work. Ultimately, a pupil's (local) standing depends to a large extent upon acquiring such skills. The findings also show that pupils often rely on their co-participants both in the staging of teases and in response work. ⌐ Walter de Gruyter.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)

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teasing

response work

collaboration

socializing practices

rhetoric

discourse analysis

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS

TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN

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