Instrumental interactions: Speech acts in daily life

Abstract

This essay challenges the assumption that Black speech events serve primarily the expressive function of influencing the audience by enhancing the speaker's character. Blacks use speech events instrumentally to adjust others to their ideas; this instrumental function is examined in the speech event of “boasting.”

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