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Download full textKochman, Thomas – 1979
This paper draws from a number of sources, from Muhammad Ali to TV commercials, to demonstrate the quite different conceptions that black and white Americans have of the meaning of boasting and bragging. For blacks, boasting and bragging are two distinct ways of speaking and communication. Boasting is a joking, playful verbal bahavior, not to be…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Blacks, Cross Cultural Training
