Boys' gossip telling: Staging identities and indexing (unacceptable) masculine behavior

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Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-225

  Evaldsson, Ann Carita ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Boys' gossip telling; Identities in talk; Indexing masculine behavior.; Occasion specific identities

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EID: 9144270857     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.2002.008     Document Type: Article

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