Publications

Publication details [#14549]

Buttny, Richard and Princess L. Williams. 2000. Demanding respect: the uses of reported speech in discursive constructions of interracial contact. Discourse & Society 11 (1) : 109–133.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interethnic communication | reported speech | respect | service encounter

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Two studies examining reported speech as a discursive practice in interracial contact found that drawing on somebody else's speech may help articulate one's own thoughts while also providing the subtext to what is being said.