Publications

Publication details [#5645]

Kochman, Thomas. 1968. Toward an ethnography of Black American speech behavior. In Lourie, Margaret A. and Nancy Faires Conklin, eds. A pluralistic nation: The language issue in the United States. Newbury House. pp. 94–116.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

black | ethnic speech event | ethnography of speaking | metapragmatic term

Annotation

An attempt to discover the features of form, style and function which distinguish different types of talk described in the black idiom as 'rapping', 'shucking', 'jiving', 'running it down', 'gripping', 'copping a plea', 'signifying', 'sounding', etc..