Actions: Communication Gossip
Description
The original definition here was "informal oral networks", which was too technical, but perhaps more accurate. In essence, gossip here is a means for the whole community to become aware of news. JB
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Addressing for mail delivery
 - And deafness
 - By sound
 - Car horn
 - Censorship
 - Engrave
 - Graffiti
 - Joking
 - Lack of communication
 - Language barriers
 - Letter
 - Listening
 - Marriage announcement
 - Messenger
 - Miscommunication
 - Newspaper article
 - Newspaper columns and notices
 - Non-human
 - Note
 - Pen and ink well
 - Post card
 - Receiving mail
 - Sending mail
 - Silence
 - Spanish
 - Speaking
 - Swearing
 - Telegraph
 - Telephone
 - Transcribing
 - Unsent message
 - Without words
 - Writing
 
Tagged Events
    Environment:     Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking  
  
      Cultural Issues:     War›World War I  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›England  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Health and Illness›Abortion |  Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Past›Family history | Texts›Accounts  
  
      Aesthetics:     Intertextuality›Embedded text, cursive  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Sitting room  
  
    
      Relationships:     Familial›Uncle-nephew  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Community›Local legends  
  
      Relationships:     Romantic›Engagement  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Group Mentality›Community collective  
  
      Relationships:     Marital›Husband-wife  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›Germany  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Gender›Southern woman  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Community›Local legends  
  
        Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Gender›Southern woman  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Values›Success  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Perceptual›Watching  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Class›Class consciousness |  Group Mentality›Community collective  
  
        Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Work›Horse training  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Group Mentality›Community collective  
  
        Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Practicality | Work›Horse training  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Group Mentality›Community collective  
  
        Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Physical›Whittling  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Agriculture›Ownership  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Community›Social life | Psychological›Paranoia | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Physical›Whittling  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›African-American folk sayings  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Domestic›Housekeeping | Movement›Running away  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Morals  
  
      Relationships:     Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Conflict | Social›Neighbor  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Narrative›First-person passim | Narrative›Parentheses  
      Environment:     Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July | Weather›Heat  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Cursing  
  
    
      Relationships:     Marital›Elopement | Social›Adversarial  
  
      Aesthetics:     Language›Profanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Environment:     Time of Day›Morning  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Accusatory  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Adolescence |  Race›Racial consciousness  
  
    
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-son | Interracial›White-black | Social›Adversarial  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Commentary  
      Environment:     Time of Day›Afternoon  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Guilt | Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Car | Physical›Holding  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Coming of age |  Group Mentality›Community collective  
  
    
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Self-Reflective  
      Environment:     Time of Day›Dawn  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Hero worship | Mental›Imagining  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Religion›Apotheosis  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Character›Opportunism | Objects›Scythe  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Repetition  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Withholding  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Entertainment›Circus |  Entertainment›Traveling show |  Gender›Patriarchy |  Gender›Separate spaces |  Gender›Sexual double standard |  Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Values›Propriety  
  
    
        Environment:     Atmospheric›Peaceful | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Place›Blacksmith shop | Place›Church | Place›Hotel | Place›Livery stable | Place›Saloon | Public›Courthouse | Public›Store | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Summer  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Curiosity | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Calling by name  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Clothes›Sunday clothes |  Economy›Commerce |  Gender›Femininity |  Gender›Lady |  Group Mentality›Community collective |  Group Mentality›Creating an Other |  Race›Etiquette |  Religion›Church service |  Religion›Sabbath |  Slavery›Domestic labor |  Slavery›Slaves vs masters  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Crowd | Community›Opinion | Community›Stranger | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Fan | Objects›Parasol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Time›Past  
  
      Relationships:     Hierarchical›Master-servant | Institutional›Church-Town | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Crowds  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Literary›Ancient Greek Chorus | Description›Character portrait | Description›Location portrait | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Musical imagery | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Revision | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›List | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Environment:     Olfactory›Decay | Public›Bridge | Public›Store porch | Time of Day›Sunset | Weather›Flood  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Decomposition | Communication›Gossip | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›News  
  
    
    
      Aesthetics:     Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Story-telling›Communal mythology  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Parentheses  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Group Mentality›Communal story  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Story-telling›Communal mythology  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Historical›Harpe | Interpretation›Debunking story | Narrative›Parentheses  
      Aesthetics:     Typography/Orthography›Dash  
      Environment:     Public›Barber shop  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny  
  
        Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Race›Integration |  Religion›Sunday school  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Entertainment›Movies  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›Los Angeles  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Barn  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Explaining  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Law›Corruption |  Race›Hierarchical |  Race›Law  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Race horse  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Revision  
      Environment:     Place›Medical practice  
  
    
      Aesthetics:     Diction›Rural vernacular  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Dining room | Place›Hotel  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Vengeful  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Economy›Commerce |  Entertainment›Horse race |  Violence›Rape  
  
      Aesthetics:     Language›Haw haw | Narrative›Parentheses  
      Environment:     Place›Plantation | Public›Road  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Excitement | Moral›Scheming | Moral›Secret | Movement›Buggy | Physical›Driving  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Agriculture›Corn |  Agriculture›Cotton |  Clothes›Socks |  Crime›Theft|Robbery |  Economy›Gambling |  Entertainment›Horse race |  Race›Solidarity  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Animals›Race horse | Objects›Gold tooth  
  
        Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Secret | Movement›Horse  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Entertainment›Horse race  
  
        Environment:     Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Afternoon  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Communication›Letter | Verbal›News  
  
    
    
      Relationships:     Friendship›Adult friends | Friendship›Adult-child  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-son  
  
        Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
    
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Race›Stereotype: smell |  War›Strategy |  War›Union Army  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Story-telling›Reminiscence