posted on 2018-02-02, 09:22authored byDavid Boromisza-Habashi, Lydia Reinig
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.
Funding
This work was supported by a grant from the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014, for which we are grateful.