What has happened to teenage subculture over the last 50 years that adults can no longer socialize them into their normal speech community? (scientificamerican.com)
A performance perspective resists the narrow applications of theatrical imagery because it characterizes «all members of a speech community as potential artists, all utterances as potentially aesthetic, all events as potentially theatrical» (Pelias and Van Oosting, 224). (religion-online.org)
To be highly proficient in Brooksian English — the language of privilege — requires mastery over not just an alphabet and rules of grammar, but also an enormous range of assumed knowledge, historical references, and cultural allusions that are commonly held by members of a speech community. (educationnext.org)