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        | a group that shares common characteristics |  | 
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        | individuals become members by choice or chance |  | 
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        | oral, aural, visual, written |  | 
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        | circumstances of performance |  | 
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        | stories about the self told in ordinary conversations with friends, peers, or family members |  | 
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        | text connecting different types of text |  | 
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        | multiple voices conveying many perspectives and embodying different cultural values which combine to create an open-ended forum |  | 
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        | minimal units of meaning that cannot be broken down into smaller units of meaning |  | 
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        | nonverbal elements of speech |  | 
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        | action, event, or object perceived as a unified whole, having widely shared meanings and manifesting group identifications |  | 
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        | to support the status quo |  | 
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        | to go against the status quo |  | 
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        | the condition or state of affairs that currently exists |  | 
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        | the ways in which signs influence people |  | 
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        | ability to control events and meanings |  | 
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        | the social and political forces that influence what elements of a culture are featured or suppressed |  | 
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        | system of belief characteristic to a group |  | 
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        | a group defines itself by contrasting it with other groups |  | 
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        | condition in which a sociocultural group (or its most perceptive members) reflect back upon themselves |  | 
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        | complex performance event and ritual that involves various combinatios of dancing, singing, chanting, and speaking |  | 
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        | one group makes fun of another group verbally, nonverbally, or both |  | 
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        | group members who breaks the norm synchroniztion and unity that attempt to get greater audience response |  | 
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        | studied personal narratives |  | 
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        | wrote the article on stepping, saluting, cracking, and freaking |  | 
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        | wrote breast cancer tattoo and the narrative of performance identity |  | 
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        | studies the ethical dimensions of ethnography of performance |  | 
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        | studies facial expressions and lying |  | 
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