Sarcasm as Pedagogy of Love: Exploring Ironic Speech Acts in an Urban High School English Classroom

摘要

The authors explore how the use of sarcasm in an urban high school English classroom fostered critical language awareness and positive relationships among diverse classroom participants. The guiding research question was, What were the social-pedagogical functions of sarcasm in this classroom? Drawing on interactional sociolinguistics and pragmatics, the authors found that sarcasm was used to construct a sense of belonging, which supported building trusting relationships and complex language learning.