Acting Out Participant Examples in the Classroom.
Title:
Acting Out Participant Examples in the Classroom.
Author:
Wortham, Stanton E.F.
ISBN:
9789027282828
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Series:
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Contents:
ACTING OUT PARTICIPANT EXAMPLES IN THE CLASSROOM -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of Transcription Symbols -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Acting Out Participant Examples -- A. Examples -- Examples' logical structure -- Examples' interactional implications -- B. Sociolinguistic Concepts for Analyzing Enacted Examples -- Rule-based accounts -- Emergent interactional events -- C. Participant Examples and Personal Pronouns -- Narrated and narrating events -- Footing and shifters -- Chapter Two. The Great Books at Colleoni High -- A. Ethnographic Background -- Colleoni High -- Fieldwork -- Classroom participants -- Classroom activities -- Ethnotheories of examples -- B. The Paideia Philosophy -- Seminar -- Classic texts and social equality -- Chapter Three. Example Use and Deictic Mapping -- A. Habitual Uses of Examples -- Total incidence -- Coding categories -- Cross-category regularities -- B. Deictic Mapping -- The technique -- The insufficiency of deictic maps -- Chapter Four. Four Enacted Participant Examples -- A. The "Spartan Babies" Class -- Students and Spartans: overview -- Students and Spartans: detailed analysis -- B. The "Tyranny" Class -- Ivory the dictator -- Maurice and Mr. Smith -- Mr. Smith and Mrs. Bailey -- C. The "Discrimination" Class -- William and Cassandra -- Mrs. Bailey and Erika -- Gary and his mother -- D. The "Revenge" Class -- Initial relationships -- Lashaunda and Dorothea -- James -- Conclusion -- Relational cognitive activities -- Pedagogical implications -- References -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This volume explores a relational pattern that occurs during one type of speech event - classroom "participant examples." A participant example describes, as an example of something, an event that includes at least one person also participating in the conversation. Participants with a role in the example have two relevant identities - as a student or teacher in the classroom, and as a character in whatever event is described as the example. This study reports that in some cases speakers not only discuss, but also act out the roles assigned to them in participant examples. That is, speakers do, with each other, what they are talking about as the content of the example. Participants act as if events described as the example provide a script for their interaction.Drawing on linguistic pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics, the author describes the linguistic mechanisms that speakers use to act out participant examples. He focuses on the role of deictics, and personal pronouns in particular, in establishing and organizing relationships. The volume also presents a new methodological technique - "deictic mapping" - that can be used to uncover interactional organization in all sorts of speech events.Drawing on the philosophy and sociology of education, the volume discusses the social and educational implications of enacted participant examples. Educational theorists generally find participant examples to be cognitively useful, as devices to help students understand pedagogical content. But enacted participant examples have systematic relational consequences as well. The volume presents and discusses enacted participant examples that have clear, and sometimes undesirable, social consequences. It also discusses how we might adjust educational theory and practice, given the relational implications of classroom participant examples.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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