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Nathan Atkinson
Assistant Professor of Communication
Georgia State University
natkinson@gsu.edu
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Re:
How to Occupy a Speech Act: The Mic Check as Performative Utterance
the democratic we
By
Nathan Atkinson
Georgia State University
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 — 2:32 pm
I like the idea of a "democratic" version of the "royal" we, and mic check not as an act of an MC (Master of Ceremonies), but as a creator of publics (though MC's can and do intiate publics, albeit in a more top down fashion). Th ...
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the democratic we