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Speech genres and cultural value in the Anglo-American public speaking course as a site of language socialization

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Speech genres have a significant role in socializing children and adults not only to speak in culturally appropriate ways but also to present desirable identities. We analyze narratives of self-transformation collected in an undergraduate public speaking course in the United States to learn how the acquisition of public speaking as a speech genre contributes to U.S. students’ language socialization. Our study contributes to two traditions of intercultural communication research, one interested in the context-bound, culturally situated character of Anglo-American speech, and another that seeks to explain how local communication resources, including speech genres, travel across cultural boundaries.

Source: Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2018.1428765

Authors: David Boromisza-Habashi, Lydia Reinig

Institution: University of Colorado Boulder

Language: English

Topic: Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: University of Colorado Boulder