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Publication details [#44116]

Tovares, Alla V. 2006. Public medium, private talk: Gossip about a TV show as 'quotidian hermeneutics'. Text 26 (4-5) : 463–491.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gossip | meaning, production of | talk show | talk-in-interaction

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper identifies gossip among family and friends about a television program 'Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?', as a type of talk defined by Bakhtin as 'quotidian hermeneutics'.