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This article studies Martin Luther King's speech, 'I Have a Dream,' delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Washington Mall, as a sermon in the black Baptist tradition. Considering 'performance as situated in context... as unfolding or arising within that context' (Hymes, 1981: 81), this sermon, which is a dialogue 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.

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