A communicational genre: rumors and urban legends
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2007.32.3421Keywords:
Imaginary, Mythology, Urban legendsAbstract
In this article the author believes that remains necessary to analyze the rumor´s degree of actuality and to study the mechanisms of distortion of facts or factual information. For him, however, it is most important to understand how and why false news is spread and believed. Renard thinks that rumours and contemporary popular narratives are actually modern equivalents of ancient legends, all of them expressing social or symbolic thought.Downloads
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