Playing the dozens: Folklore as strategies for living

Thurmon Garner

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Folkloric speech acts contribute to social order by controlling and directing human behavior. To illustrate how folklore functions as a social regulator, an obscene rhetorical event, known in Black communities as “Playing the Dozens,” is examined.

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