Pillet-Shore2015b

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Pillet-Shore2015b
BibType ARTICLE
Key Pillet-Shore2015b
Author(s) Danielle Pillet-Shore
Title Being a “good parent” in parent–teacher conferences
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Tag(s) EMCA, Institutional Interaction, Parent–Teacher Conferences, Epistemics, Criticism, Student Troubles, Preference Organization, Self-Presentation, Parent Involvement, Competence, delicates, laughter
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Journal of Communication
Volume 65
Number 2
Pages 373–395
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DOI 10.1111/jcom.12146
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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 “good parent” in the course of actual social interaction. Examining video-recorded naturally occurring parent–teacher conferences, this article shows that, while teachers deliver student-praising utterances, parents may display that they are gaining knowledge; but when teachers' actions adumbrate student-criticizing utterances, parents systematically display prior knowledge. This article elucidates the details of how teachers and parents tacitly collaborate to enable parents to express student-troubles first, demonstrating that parents display competence—appropriate involvement with children's schooling—by asserting their prior knowledge of, and/or claiming/describing their efforts to remedy, student-troubles. People (have to) display competence generically in interaction. By explicating how parents display competence, this article offers insights for several areas of communication research.

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