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Peer reviewedDillon, David A. – Language Arts, 1980
Outlines the beliefs people have about speech styles, how and why people modify speech styles, and the role of speech style in social identity. Discusses educational implications of these findings. (RL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Attitudes
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
