Anthropology 50.7 - Gossip:Private Discourse,Public Discourse

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Dartmouth College

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10W: 10A Linguistic anthropological study of gossip offers insight into the power of speech to construct and transform peoples' private and public selves. Gossip occurs in widely varying ethnographic contexts, but everywhere the circulation of these potent messages seems to involve maximum privacy of the source speaker and maximal publicity to the target audience. As such, gossip also offers a vantage on how language use travels between micro-interactional and macro-sociological spheres. This course examines gossip cross-culturally in order to understand how private and public spheres are constituted through talk, with attention to linguistic, social, and cultural aspects of performance, participant roles, mediation and circulation, publics, authority, and knowledge. (CULT) Ball.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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