Boasting and Bragging [electronic resource] : "Black" and "White." Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 58 / Thomas Kochman.
This paper draws from a number of sources, from Muhammad Ali to TV commercials, to demonstrate the quite different conceptions that black and white Americans have of the meaning of boasting and bragging. For blacks, boasting and bragging are two distinct ways of speaking and communication. Boasting...
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