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Our intention in this paper is to provide a consistent epistemological (applied and social) account of gossip, understood as broadly evaluative talk between two or more people, comfortably acquainted between each other, about an absent third party they are both at least acquainted with.
Hello, welcome to ‘How to...’ with me, Neil Edgeller. In this programme we’ll take a look at how to gossip; that is how to talk about other people’s private lives. Perhaps you’ve heard a rumour –...
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1 kwi 2014 · What can the use of gossip in fiction tell us about characters and plot? In what ways is literature itself gossip? What can literary culture tell us about the nature of gossip? Does literature's use of gossip furnish parameters by which gossip can be described or defined?
13 cze 2019 · In this section, we discuss three ways in which language factors in the human reputation management system. First, the form and content of speech serve as a reputation signal about the speaker. Second, we review several relatively subtle devices implicated in the management of reputations in conversation.
In this programme we'll take a look at how to gossip - that is how to talk about other people's private lives. Perhaps you've heard a rumour - that is an interesting piece of news that...
