Talk, Small Stories, and Adolescent Identities

Both commentators hint at a different interpretation of the participants™ ac-tions/interactions. They ask whether it is possible to interpret the silence or non-engagement of some participants as a counter strategy or even resistance to what I termed ‚slut bashing™ and what I assumed to be the dominant activity of the group. At first, I was surprised by this interpretation because I had been working with tran-scripts from the videotaped interactions and could