Publications

Publication details [#4005]

Griffin, Peg and Hugh Mehan. 1981. Sense and ritual in classroom discourse. In Coulmas, Florian, ed. Conversational routine: Explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech. Mouton. pp. 187–213.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | institutional context | ritual

Annotation

The analysis of discourse interchanges in the classroom shows that linguistic routines in institutional settings exhibit a fine interplay between ritual and spontaneous motives. This is so, because utterances fulfil multiple functions simultaneously.