1. How valid/objective is our interpretation of metacommentary? Does its objectivity matter?

2. The majority of the author’s examples are based on children’s metacommentary and take place in a classroom. I […]

Readings for this week are mostly concerned with some of the following concepts:

Metacommentary is ‘how language comments on itself’ (Rymes) or ‘talk about talk’ (Johnstone).Social indexicality is ‘the r […]