1988/03/01 by Alexandra Álvarez Muro · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Anthropology #Art #Civil rights #Code (set theory) #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Dream #Epistemology #Ethnography #Event (particle physics) #History #Law #Linguistics #Literature #Martin luther king #Meaning (existential) #Philosophy #Political science #Politics #Psychology #Pulpit #Rhetoric and Communication Studies #Sermon #Situated #Sociology #Theology
paper · doi:10.1177/002193478801800306
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This article studies Martin Luther King's speech, "I Have a Dream," delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Washington Mall, as a sermon in the black Baptist tradition. Considering "performance as situated in context... as unfolding or arising within that context" (Hymes, 1981: 81), this sermon, which is a dialogue between speaker and audience, has, in addition to the "message" contained in the code, a broader ethnographic meaning. The speech event itself is metaphorical in nature, signaling political protest.