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Publication details [#61662]

Pillet-Shore, Danielle. 2016. Criticizing another's child: How teachers evaluate students during parent-teacher conferences. Language in Society 45 (1) : 33–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | conflict | evaluation | family conversation | teacher

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper clarifies structural preference organization during parent-teacher conferences, allowing interactants to evade conflict, to wit teacher mitigation of student-criticism (thus preserving solidarity with students and parents).