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McKenna, Christopher J. – AILA Review, 2021
The contribution seeks to apply the principles of J. L. Austin's speech-act theories to the study of local business segregation in the Jim Crow South. In particular, it borrows the notions of illocutionary and perlocutionary force when examining the seemingly bland and prosaic statements that are often used to normalise segregation within the…
Descriptors: Films, Speech Acts, Rural Areas, Ethnic Studies