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Publication Date: 1988
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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream": The Speech Event as Metaphor.
Alvarez, Alexandra
Journal of Black Studies, v18 n3 p337-57 Mar 1988
Martin Luther King's speech is examined as a sermon in the Black Baptist tradition. The speech, which is a dialog 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. (Author/BJV)
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