Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ581933
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Publication Date: 1998
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Are Secrets Immoral? The Construction of Secrets in Everyday Conversation.
Gunthner, Susanne; Luckmann, Thomas
Research on Language and Social Interaction, v31 n3-4 p327-58 1998
Investigates the communicative treatment of secrets, presenting examples from recorded communicative interactions in a wide range of social milieus and settings in which the participants revealed knowledge of secrets, tried to dig out old secrets without appearing to be doing so, and occasionally, appeared to be hiding some items of knowledge from one another. (SM)
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Language: English
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