Σάββατο 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

Negotiating the terms of engagement: Humor as a resource for managing interactional trouble in after-school tutoring encounters

Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Anne PomerantzAbstractThis paper examines how tutors and tutees negotiate the terms of their engagement within the context of an after-school program in the United States of America that pairs university students with immigrant children from Bangladesh for the purpose of working through the children's homework assignments. Drawing on insights and approaches from linguistic ethnography, it argues that humor plays a meaningful yet overlooked role both in managing the transactional and interpersonal dimensions of homework help sessions and in illuminating the ongoing tensions and uncertainties at various levels of social organization that tutors and tutees encounter as they engage with one another. Likewise,...

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