Book: Analysing Casual Conversation
Chapter: Gossip: establishing and maintaining group membership
Blurb:
7·1 Introduction; 7·2 Establishing that there is a distinctive genre of gossip;7·3 Defining and labelling the genre; 7.4 The social function of gossip; 7·5 Identifying and differentiating the text stages: the generic structure of gossip; 7·6 Specifying semantic and lexico-grammatical realizations for each stage of a gossip text; 7·7 The generic and micro structure of the gossip text; 7·8 Conclusion