Gossip
The word gossip may refer to:
Functions of gossip
Gossip can serve to:
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- normalise and re-inforce moral boundaries in a speech-community
- foster and build a sense of community with shared interests and information
- entertain and divert participants in gossip-sessions
- retail and develop stories and even legends: see memetics
- build structures of social accountability
- further mutual social grooming (like many other uses of language, only more so)
- reflect unvarnished and spontaneous public opinion - of interest to marketeers, to pollsters and to secret policemen
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Etymology |
| ► | Functions of gossip |
| ► | Enemies of gossip |
| ► | Quotes |
| ► | See also |
| ► | Bibliography |
| ► | External links |
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