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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Margutti, Piera; Piirainen-Marsh, Arja – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This special issue of "Linguistics and Education" deals with a specific domain of activities related to the management of discipline in classrooms. Matters of authority and discipline have been widely discussed in educational research literature. Yet, only a handful of studies have investigated how matters of discipline and the boundaries of…
Descriptors: Discipline, Educational Research, Discourse Analysis, Interaction
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Piirainen-Marsh, Arja – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This paper describes how irony is used to negatively evaluate student behaviour in sequences where students disrupt or resist the official business of the lesson and thus challenge the teacher's authority. Irony-implicative utterances, i.e. utterances hearable as ironic in their context, are examined from two complementary perspectives: (i) the…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Figurative Language, Moral Values, Secondary School Teachers