Another example of house talk is presented as follows. 4: 04 Eleanor
If this person is supposed to represent Waldorf designs, you have to find me someone... worthy of the clothes
. Laurel
Yeah. Eleanor
Someone like me. Mm. Someone like ... my daughter.
No. 39EP4S06P99 Datum 4: 04 shows that house talk happens when Eleanor and Laurel are
talking about the model for the upcoming project. Laurel was a friend of Eleanor and also a partner of fashion business. Eleanor wanted someone who was worthy
of the clothes because it needed to represent Waldorf designs. Then, she remembered that someone who was like her was absolutely her only daughter,
Blair Waldorf. Laurel, from her point of view as a designer, also accepted if Blair’s daughter was able to represent the Waldorf lifestyle. The reason was that
there would be no other model that was better to represent it. Thus, house talk appears as they are talking about a new face for their business. Although they
have friendship, they also talk about business or occupation.
b. Scandal
As what is clearly shown in Table 2, scandal ranks fourth or the last. From all the 45 data, it only appears three times. This type of gossip is less often used
by the female characters in Gossip Girl Season 1. Scandal is a verbal policing or the judging of other women’s behavior. It also shows women’s interest in each
other’s lives. The three data which contain scandal are described one by one.
4: 05 [Isabel and Katy are reading their text messages] Katy
My god, youll never believe whats on Gossip Girl. Isabel
Someone saw Serena get off a train at Grand Central
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The type of gossip in datum 4: 05 is scandal. The situation began as Katy and Isabel were together in their school. While they were waiting for the next
class, Katy showed the text messages from ‘Gossip Girl’ that contained gossip
about Serena who got off from a train at Grand Central. ‘Gossip Girl’ was a SNS
Social Networking Service that was famous in Gossip Girl Season 1. Providing updates of wellknown people in USA, the SNS delivered the news that Serena
was back to USA. They showed an interest of Serena. Both of them knew who Serena was as they attended the same junior high school.
4: 06 Blair Cedric?
Your brother’s name? Jenny
No, that was his Cabbage Patch Kid. My brothers name is Dan.
Actually, you might know him. He, uhm, he went out with Serena last night.
Blair That was your brother? So does that mean youre friends
with Serena now? Jenny
I mean, I dont have a problem with her but if someone did havea problem with her I wouldnt have a problem with that
either.
No. 19EP2S23P47-P48 Datum 4: 06 is an example of scandal. This type of gossip happens when
Blair and Jenny are talking about Serena. When Jenny was playing with Blair’s
doll, she called the doll with Cedric. Blair misunderstood about the name Cedric. That name belonged
to her brother’s doll. Then, Blair asked the name of Jenny’s brother. However, Blair found out that Da
n Humprey was Jenny’s brother who
