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Peer reviewedMaynard, Douglas W. – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1997
Explores the conditional nature of good and bad news while focusing on three topics: (1) the status of information as news according the participants in a conversation; (2) the valence of this information with regard to its perception as good or bad; and (3) the effect of news on individuals. Notes that good news is privileged over bad news in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Context Effect, Convergent Thinking, Discourse Analysis
