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Article: Othering in gossip: "You go out you have a laugh and you can pull yeah okay but like..."

TitleOthering in gossip: "You go out you have a laugh and you can pull yeah okay but like..."
Authors
KeywordsGossip
Liminality
Othering
Self- and other-identities
Stories
Issue Date2005
PublisherCambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LSY
Citation
Language In Society, 2005, v. 34 n. 5, p. 447-494 How to Cite?
AbstractIt has been claimed that gossip allows participants to negotiate aspects of group membership, and the inclusion and exclusion of others, by working out shared values. This article examines instances of gossipy storytelling among young friends during which participants negotiate self- and other-identities in particular ways. Participants are found to share judgments not only about others' behavior but also about their own behavior through particular processes of othering. A range of discursive strategies place the characters in gossip-stories (even in the category called "self-gossip") in marginalized, liminal, or uncertain social spaces. In the gossipy talk episodes examined, social "transgression" might be oriented to as a serious matter and thus pejorated, or oriented to in a playful key and thus celebrated. This ambiguity - AP"Do we disapprove or approve, of this 'bad'behavior?" -means that in negotiating the identity status of "gossipees" liminality is constant. It is argued that othering, as an emergent category, along with the particular discursive strategies that achieve it, is an aspect of gossip that deserves further attention © 2005 Cambridge University Press.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/147152
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 2.0
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.876
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dc.contributor.authorJaworski, Aen_HK
dc.contributor.authorCoupland, Jen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-29T03:24:19Z-
dc.date.available2012-05-29T03:24:19Z-
dc.date.issued2005en_HK
dc.identifier.citationLanguage In Society, 2005, v. 34 n. 5, p. 447-494en_HK
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dc.description.abstractIt has been claimed that gossip allows participants to negotiate aspects of group membership, and the inclusion and exclusion of others, by working out shared values. This article examines instances of gossipy storytelling among young friends during which participants negotiate self- and other-identities in particular ways. Participants are found to share judgments not only about others' behavior but also about their own behavior through particular processes of othering. A range of discursive strategies place the characters in gossip-stories (even in the category called "self-gossip") in marginalized, liminal, or uncertain social spaces. In the gossipy talk episodes examined, social "transgression" might be oriented to as a serious matter and thus pejorated, or oriented to in a playful key and thus celebrated. This ambiguity - AP"Do we disapprove or approve, of this 'bad'behavior?" -means that in negotiating the identity status of "gossipees" liminality is constant. It is argued that othering, as an emergent category, along with the particular discursive strategies that achieve it, is an aspect of gossip that deserves further attention © 2005 Cambridge University Press.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LSYen_HK
dc.relation.ispartofLanguage in Societyen_HK
dc.subjectGossipen_HK
dc.subjectLiminalityen_HK
dc.subjectOtheringen_HK
dc.subjectSelf- and other-identitiesen_HK
dc.subjectStoriesen_HK
dc.titleOthering in gossip: "You go out you have a laugh and you can pull yeah okay but like..."en_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
dc.identifier.emailJaworski, A: jaworski@hku.hken_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0047404505050256en_HK
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dc.identifier.volume34en_HK
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dc.identifier.spage447en_HK
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