Teasing, laughing and disciplinary humor: Staff–youth interaction in detention home treatment  

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Gradin Franzen, Anna ; Aronsson, Karin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 2 (Apr. 2013), page 167 –183.
Topik: Detention homes; disciplinary humor; discipline; laughter; social order; teasing; youth
Fulltext: Discourse Studies-2013-Gradin Franzén-167-83.pdf (486.25KB)

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This study explores how disciplinary humor is deployed to shape and reshape social order in intergenerational encounters. Data are drawn from an ethnographic study of staff–resident encounters at a treatment home for boys (including about 30 hours of video recordings), focusing on sequential patterns in the local design of jokes and teasing, analyzing language and multimodal interaction in detail. It was found that staff and boys recurrently laughed together and teased each other by invoking local hierarchical positions such as child–adult. The intrinsic ambiguity of humor and teasing allowed staff members to engage in temporary breaches of social order, while simultaneously enforcing local rules of conduct. Similarly, the boys would joke with the staff, exaggerating or transgressing institutional and generational divides. But ultimately, the joking could also be seen to remind the participants of the very hierarchies that separate staff from residents and men from boys, or adults from children.

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