Pillet-Shore2012b

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Pillet-Shore2012b
BibType ARTICLE
Key Pillet-Shore2012b
Author(s) Danielle Pillet-Shore
Title The problems with praise in parent-teacher interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, Compliments, Education, delicates, laughter
Publisher
Year 2012
Language
City
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Journal Communication Monographs
Volume 79
Number 2
Pages 181–204
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DOI 10.1080/03637751.2012.672998
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Institution
School
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Howpublished
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Abstract

This research advances our understanding of what constitutes “a compliment” and “self-praise” in social interaction. Examining video-recorded naturally occurring parent–teacher conference interactions, this article demonstrates that participants treat utterances that praise nonpresent students as implicating praise of parents: parents respond to teachers’ student-praising utterances as compliments; teachers laugh after they explicitly credit student success to parents, displaying their orientation to these crediting utterances as delicate because they leak teachers’ evaluation of parents based upon students’ performance in school; and parents work to avoid articulating student-praising utterances, thereby avoiding implications of self-praise. This research thus reveals that, rather than affording a mutually enjoyable moment of celebration transparently supportive of social solidarity, the action of praising students occasions interactional problems for conference participants.

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