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Publication details [#32476]

Pawelczyk, Joanna. 2003. Redefining femininity: Call and response as gendered features in African-American discourse. Multilingua 23 (4) : 415–438.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

church | communication | discourse strategy | gender | response

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This article discusses one of the most unique African-American communicative strategies, derived from the Black church, i.e. that of the minimal response of call and response, as a marker of socially constructed gender among the members of a church committee in Ypsilanti, MI.