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Negotiating social relationships: Fontane’s gossip
The rhetoric of discreet indiscretion in L’Adultera
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Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich
Abstract
Gossip is a butterfly:
If you run after it, it will fly away from you;
If you are sitting still, it will rest on your shoulder.
(A saying on the Philippines)
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Abstract
Gossip is a butterfly:
If you run after it, it will fly away from you;
If you are sitting still, it will rest on your shoulder.
(A saying on the Philippines)
You are currently not able to access this content.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
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Part I
- Reputation and refutation 3
- The mediator as power broker 19
- “We are different than the Americans and the Japanese!” 39
- Games of power 63
- The grammar of bargaining 77
- Negotiation in business meetings 91
- Interlocutionary scenarios as negotiation of diatextual power 107
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Part II
- Addresser, addressee and target 125
- Negotiation of irony in dialogue 139
- A case of negotiation 149
- Silence as a tool for the negotiation of sense in multi-parties conversations 167
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Part III
- The negotiation of affect in natural conversation 183
- Implicit communication in political interviews 197
- Negotiation of topics in professional e-mail-communication 215
- Negotiation and identity 225
- The negotiation of relevance 239
- Unspoken assertions 253
- Negotiating social relationships: Fontane’s gossip 267
- General index 289
- List of contributors 293
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
-
Part I
- Reputation and refutation 3
- The mediator as power broker 19
- “We are different than the Americans and the Japanese!” 39
- Games of power 63
- The grammar of bargaining 77
- Negotiation in business meetings 91
- Interlocutionary scenarios as negotiation of diatextual power 107
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Part II
- Addresser, addressee and target 125
- Negotiation of irony in dialogue 139
- A case of negotiation 149
- Silence as a tool for the negotiation of sense in multi-parties conversations 167
-
Part III
- The negotiation of affect in natural conversation 183
- Implicit communication in political interviews 197
- Negotiation of topics in professional e-mail-communication 215
- Negotiation and identity 225
- The negotiation of relevance 239
- Unspoken assertions 253
- Negotiating social relationships: Fontane’s gossip 267
- General index 289
- List of contributors 293
