“It's cookin' now”: A performance analysis of the speech events of a Black teacher in an urban community college
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Language in Society
- Vol. 18 (1) , 1-29
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500013257
Abstract
Ethnographic research conducted in the classroom of a Black woman teacher in an urban community college reveals the presence of two distinct but culturally appropriate ways of speaking. Drawing on performance theory, this article analyzes two speech events through which the teacher establishes and maintains congruent face-to-face interaction. It compares the speech events and discusses their effect on student participation and the interpretations and meanings that the participants attach to each. (Performance, ways of speaking, speech events, ethnography of communication)Keywords
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