Pedagogic ventriloquation: Projected constructed direct reported speech in teacher talk

Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Robert Jean LeBlancAbstractDrawing on an interactional sociolinguistic approach to classroom talk, I conceptualize pedagogic ventriloquation: representation of students' linguistic actions which have not actually happened but which are framed as potential or likely through quotatives and paralinguistic features, for the purposes of instruction. Using data from audio-recordings of a 9th grade ELA classroom in Southern California, I demonstrate the teacher's use of this form i) to provide an evidentiary base for claims about students' classroom work habits and, ii) as indirect criticism which allows the teacher/speaker to simultaneously distance or detach themselves from the censure. I argue for conceptualizi...

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