Speaking Ebonics In A Professional Context: The Role Of Ethos/Source Credibility And Perceived Sociability Of The Speaker

摘要

Within a theoretical context of speech accommodation theory, this study follows Lambert et al.'s (1960) "matched-guise" Seventy-two African-American students at a mid-south university listened to and evaluated A tape-recorded excerpt of a speech given by Jesse Jackson at the 1996 Democratic National Convention. The first version of the speech was trans- lated into Ebonics.