Publications

Publication details [#12476]

Labov, William. 1997. Rules for Ritual Insults. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 472–486.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | ethnography of speaking | insulting | language and culture | playing the dozens | ritual | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, African American Vernacular

Reprint of

Labov, William, ed. 1972. Language in the inner city: Studies in the black English vernacular. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Annotation

A report on sequencing and interaction regularities in the speech event of "playing the dozens" among Blacks in Harlem, New York City.