%0 Journal Article
%T Building Up by Tearing Down
%A Jessica S. Robles
%J Journal of Language and Social Psychology
%@ 1552-6526
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0261927X17744244
%X This article analyzes mockery sequences among a group of friends to examine how this discursive practice mobilizes categories to manage stances toward differences and to construct group norms and boundaries. Using discourse analysis, I inspect how nonseriously tearing down or jocularly teasing/mocking participants within a peer group manages the practical problem of in-group difference by reaffirming shared stances and norms around masculinity. The analysis highlights some of the ways in which groups navigate difference and identity moment-to-moment in interaction, showing how the moral organization of in-group and out-group assessments are built in the mundane world of conversation
%K discourse analysis
%K discursive psychology
%K membership categorization
%K stance
%K mockery
%K morality
%K masculinity
%K in-group
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261927X17744244