The rhetoric of discreet indiscretion in L’Adultera: Negotiating social relationships: Fontane’s gossip

Hess-Lüttich, Ernest W.B.

doi:10.1075/cilt.214.22hes

In:Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction
Edited by Edda Weigand and Marcelo Dascal †
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 214] 2001
► pp. 267–288

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Negotiating social relationships: Fontane’s gossip

The rhetoric of discreet indiscretion in L’Adultera

Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich | University of Bern

Published online: 6 September 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.214.22hes

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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