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Building up by tearing down
This paper analyzes mockery sequences among a group of friends to examine how this discursive
practice mobilizes categories to manage stances toward differences and to construct group norms
and boundaries. Using discourse analysis, I inspect how non-seriously tearing down or jocularly
teasing/mocking participants within a peer group manages the practical problem of ingroup
difference by reaffirming shared stances and norms around masculinity. The analysis highlights
some of the ways in which groups navigate difference and identity moment-to-moment in
interaction, showing how the moral organization of ingroup and outgroup assessments are built in the mundane world of conversation.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Journal of Language and Social PsychologyCitation
ROBLES, J., 2017. Building up by tearing down. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38 (1), pp.85-105.Publisher
SAGE Publications © The AuthorVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-11-02Publication date
2017Notes
ROBLES, J., Building up by tearing down, Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Copyright © 2017 (The Author). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.ISSN
1552-6526Publisher version
Language
- en