Playing the dozens: Folklore as strategies for living
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 69 (1) , 47-57
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638309383634
Abstract
Folkloric speech acts contribute to social order by controlling and directing human behavior. To illustrate how folklore functions as a social regulator, an obscene rhetorical event, known in Black communities as “Playing the Dozens,” is examined.Keywords
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