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Article is devoted to questions of studying of gossip is as a speech genre in Russian and English linguistic
cultures. Speech genres as well as works on linguistic consciousness, theory and classification of rumours and
gossips proposed by linguists and psychologists have been studied. Gossips published in newspaper columns “It
is rumoured that…” and “Gossip! Gossip! Gossip!” were used as study materials. Specific parameters of
rumours genre have been identified.
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Heading: Humanities