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Publication details [#32488]

Tholander, Michael. 2003. Pupils' gossip as remedial action. Discourse Studies 5 (1) : 101–130.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | participant

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

1461-4456

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article focuses on Swedish junior high-school pupils' participation in gossip interaction, the required social competencies to do so, and on the major function of gossip as remedial action.