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Publication details [#34941]

Besnier, Niko. 1989. Information withholding as a manipulative and collusive strategy in a Nukulaelae gossip. Language in Society 18 (3) : 315–341.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | conversational strategy | ethnography of speaking | informativeness | repair

Language as a subject

Nukulaelae

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with Nukulaelae information withholding sequences as conversational strategies in gossip interactions, serving a dual function: opportunity of manipulation of audiences, making them gossip coproducers, and reinforcement of initial speaker status as floor controller.