Publications

Publication details [#5848]

Labov, William. 1972. Rules for ritual insults. In Sudnow, David, ed. Studies in social interaction. The Free Press. pp. 120–169.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
playing the dozens | ritual insult
Language as a subject
English, Black

Annotation

Discourse analysis of the Black American game of 'playing the dozens' (the participants of which utter ritualized insults).

Reprints

Labov, William. 1972. In Labov, William, ed. Language in the inner city: Studies in the black English vernacular. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 297–353.