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the teacher’s talk fluctuates between their frontstage (professional) and backstage
(domestic) roles and therefore, discussions relating to mothering are often interwoven
with, or triggered by, topics relating to work issues.
Extract 6
425
Jan:
(tentatively) is that the class that my son's in ?
RI
426 Karen:
yeah
427 Jan: oh
428
Karen: (ironically) yeah your son was being stretched =
CEo
429
Jan:
=
is
he
?
RI
430
Karen: yeah I nailed him to a chair an left him in the sports center SE
431
Jan:
he's back in classes then ( laughs nervously ) off internal suspension
FTAp + RI
432
Lou: it was (1.0) I thought that only happened last year ( laughs) it's
433
happening this year as well has it (referring to Jan's son's suspension)
FTAp
434
Jan:
last year he was withdrawn for two no (.) last week he was withdrawn
435
for two days for punching Phillip Smith (.) but nobody blamed him for
436
punching that creep (.) Phillip Smith was such an obnoxious child
437
that he was quite a hero I think
FTAp + CEo
438
Lou: well actually that could have happened to anyone =
SCm