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Speech genres and cultural value in the Anglo-American public speaking course as a site of language socialization
journal contribution
posted on 2018-02-02, 09:22 authored by David Boromisza-Habashi, Lydia ReinigSpeech 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.