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Book: Analysing Casual Conversation

Chapter: Gossip: establishing and maintaining group membership

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.25502

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

Chapter Contributors

  • Suzanne Eggins ([email protected] - textwork) 'Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Technology Sydney'
  • Diana Slade ([email protected] - dslade) 'University of Technology Sydney'