Ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genres
This essay examines the ubiquity of cultural forms such as gossip, rumours, urban legends, and hoaxes. This study addresses each cultural form as genre, pointing to their overlapping features and characteristics. In what follows, the authors explore each genre’s key practices, practitioners, motivat...
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doaj-f10b408ba600448a92696e7539026cce2020-11-25T04:00:22ZengUniversity of Guelph LibraryNouvelle Revue Synergies Canada2292-22612014-04-01710.21083/nrsc.v0i7.30291624Ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genresAurore Van de WinkelIan Reilly0Concordia UniversityThis essay examines the ubiquity of cultural forms such as gossip, rumours, urban legends, and hoaxes. This study addresses each cultural form as genre, pointing to their overlapping features and characteristics. In what follows, the authors explore each genre’s key practices, practitioners, motivations, and social settings in the interests of unravelling of the oft misunderstood relationships among these and other related forms. The essay situates these forms and practices as vibrant, compelling, and complex forms of discourse that initiate dialogue and deliberation in numerous settings to a broad (if amorphous) public.https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nrsc/article/view/3029GossipRumoursUrban LegendsMedia HoaxingGenre |
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Ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genres |
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Ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genres |
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Ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genres |
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Ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genres |
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Ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genres |
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ragots, rumeurs, légendes urbaines, et e-canulars : vers un éclaircissement des genres |
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University of Guelph Library |
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Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada |
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This essay examines the ubiquity of cultural forms such as gossip, rumours, urban legends, and hoaxes. This study addresses each cultural form as genre, pointing to their overlapping features and characteristics. In what follows, the authors explore each genre’s key practices, practitioners, motivations, and social settings in the interests of unravelling of the oft misunderstood relationships among these and other related forms. The essay situates these forms and practices as vibrant, compelling, and complex forms of discourse that initiate dialogue and deliberation in numerous settings to a broad (if amorphous) public. |
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Gossip Rumours Urban Legends Media Hoaxing Genre |
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