Speech genres and cultural value in the Anglo-American public speaking course as a site of language socialization |
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Authors: | David Boromisza-Habashi Lydia Reinig |
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Institution: | Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Speech genres language socialization cultural value public speaking mobility |
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