Speakers picked up on the pop-culture reference and commented on it or introduced a related topic up on the pop-culture reference and commented on it and the teacher subsequently brought the discussion back to the articles in question after several intervening turns (p.1)
In bringing pop culture surgery discourse to bear on their science “work” Kyle and Max were able to manage and control the scientific activity in which they were engaged in ways that they probably could not were they merely “being themselves”(p. 115) engaged many of the boys who otherwise were considered “academic and social outsiders”within their classroom , allowing them to use language that was “playful,parodic,and performative” (p. 164) especially in relation to masculinity,violence and fear. Lewis desescribed this as a “subversive” performance in which the boys “suppressed selves” could appea (p.165)