across 563 school behaviour policies, i found that notions of 'misbehaviour' coalesce with a whole constellation of linguistic features. of course, these linguistic features are not empirically connected to 'misbehaviour', but they are strongly ideologically connected.
ALT a large circle with the word 'misbehaviour' in it. around the edges of the circle are the following: slang, informal language, absence of politeness markers, basic vocabulary, incomplete sentences, non-standard grammar, interrupts, inarticulate, loud, mumbles, not silent, does not retain eye contact.
👂 How do school behaviour policies ‘hear’? How do they reproduce ideologies which co-construct imagined signs of linguistic deficiency with misbehaviour? What does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? New work coming soon in International Studies of Sociology of Education 💕