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Publication details [#53807]

Rasmussen, Gitte. 2010. 'Going mental’: The risks of assessment activities (in teenage talk). Discourse Studies 12 (6) : 739–761.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | conversational analysis | insulting | teenager

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Using multimodal conversational analysis, this paper discusses how teenage boys end challenged-assessment sequences through ‘insults’ that question the ‘mental’ skills of their co-participants in social activities.