Aslan2021
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Tugba Aslan |
| Title | ‘The sequential organisation of gossip talk’ |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, gossip, semi-institutional talk, talk-in-action, Turkish, sequential organisation, sequence organisation |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 23 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 429-450 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614456211001604 |
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Abstract
Gossip, in its most general sense, means talking about absent third parties with regards to their strengths and weaknesses in an evaluative or informative tone. It is a common phenomenon and has been investigated from different perspectives of research such as human sciences, behavioural psychology, anthropology and so forth. Although it is a prevalent research topic amongst researchers of various disciplines, the sequential organisation of gossip talk still keeps its authenticity in terms of real-life talk-in-action research. This study aims to provide a micro-analysis of the sequential organisation of gossip talk adopting an emic perspective. The data set consists of a collection of 90 hours of audio data collected from a retirement home in Turkey. The data are analysed using Conversation Analysis. The results of the micro-analysis of authentic gossip talk points to a systematicity in gossip talk sequences in terms of initiation, response and closing.
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