Verbal Art as Performance1
- 1 June 1975
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 77 (2) , 290-311
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1975.77.2.02a00030
Abstract
Departing from text‐centered perspectives on verbal art, an approach is developed to verbal art as performance, derived from recent work in folklore, the ethnography of speaking, sociolinguistics, and literary stylistics. The patterning of performance in genres, acts, roles, and events is discussed, as well as the emergent quality of performance, manifested in text, event, and social structure.Keywords
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