Positioning in adolescents’ peer co-narrations: The case of mock fiction
- Mock fiction is a genre of humorous, fictional narratives. It is pervasive in adolescents’ peer-group interaction. Building on a corpus of informal peer-group interaction among 14 to 17 year-old German adolescents, it is shown how mock fiction is used to sanction identity-claims of peer-group co-members that are taken to be inadequate by the teller of a mock fiction. Mock fiction exposes and ridicules those claims by fictional exaggeration. Mock fiction is an indirect, yet sometimes even highly abusive means for criticizing and negotiating identities and statuses of peer-group members. The analysis shows how mock fiction is collaboratively produced, how it is used to convey criticism and to negotiate social norms indirectly, and how, in addition, it allows for performative self-positioning of the tellers as skilled, entertaining tellers and socio-psychological diagnosticians.
| Author: | Arnulf DeppermannORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-107778 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33632-5_4 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-658-33632-5 |
| Parent Title (German): | Begegnen, Bewegen und Synergien stiften. Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Kulturen, Performanzen und Methoden |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publication: | Wiesbaden |
| Editor: | Marc Dietrich, Irene Leser, Katja Mruck, Paul Sebastian Ruppel, Anja Schwentesius, Rubina Vock |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/12/07 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | conversation analysis; conversational narrative; humor; peer-group interaction; positioning |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Fiktion; Humor; Interaktion; Konversationsanalyse; Peer-Group; Soziale Norm |
| First Page: | 55 |
| Last Page: | 76 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Gesprächsforschung / Gesprochene Sprache |
| Program areas: | P1: Interaktion |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |