Gossip
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While gossip forms one of the oldest and (still) the most common means of spreading and sharing information, it also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information thus transmitted. The term also carries implications that the news so transmitted (usually) has a personal or trivial nature. Compare conversation. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Gossip has recently come into the academy as a fruitful avenue of study, particularly in light of its relationship to both overt and implicit power structures. Compare discourse. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Some newspapers carry "gossip columns" which retail the social and personal lives of celebrities or of ?lite members of a local community. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Academy: An academy is an institution for the study of higher learning.... Power: The concept of power has many senses, all of which imply control or force.... Discourse: In semantics, discourses are linguistic units composed of several sentences ? in other words, conversations, arguments or speeches. Conventional phraseology often characterises a discourse as 'learned', as in: 'The Professor delivered a learned discourse on the obscure art of Orange peeling.'... Gossip related Images and Photos (experimental) | ~ Table of Content ~
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~ Related Subjects ~Semantics (1) - Force (1) - Control (1) - Speeches (1) - Arguments (1) - Conversations (1) - Discourse (1) - Power (1) - Academy (1) - ?lite (1) - Celebrities (1) - Gossip column (1) -~ Community ~
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