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Publication details [#54795]

Fifer Seilhamer, Mark. 2011. On doing ‘being a crank caller’: A look into the crank call community of practice. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (2) : 677–690.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | contextualization cue | frame | social norm | telephone conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that a large number of prank phone call practitioners and avid fans -breaching tacitly accepted social norms- constitute a crank call community of practice, which is required to maintain its fabricated frames throughout all these interactions, in order to avoid exposure.