0 fond of gossiping -- suka mengumpat
gossipy neighbours/neighbors.
In the next section, we work toward characterizing the discursive strategies used for othering in stories involving gossipy events.
This article examines instances of gossipy storytelling among young friends during which participants negotiate self- and other-identities in particular ways.
They are thus a doubly interesting source: early in her career they supply a much-needed musical profile; later they fill in the gossipy backstage context.
In the gossipy talk episodes examined, social "transgression" might be oriented to as a serious matter and thus pejorated, or oriented to in a playful key and thus celebrated.
This is an aspect of gossipy talk that deserves but has not yet received sustained attention, and it is to this we turn in our analysis of gossip episodes below.
First, we want to demonstrate that our student friends' storytelling contains "gossipy episodes" that focus largely, although not exclusively, on derogatory0disparaging gossip, and to a lesser extent on celebratory gossip.
It is a question not just of the gossipy councillor but of whether, if the correspondence is spread more widely, it will become public information.
I am sure that male messengers are at least as gossipy as tea ladies.
