This book is designed to investigate the underexplored phenomenon of gossip with an emic perspective in a nursing home in Türkiye, where the body of research on gossip so far is limited to quantitative questionnaire data or participant perception-based interview data. The book adopts an ethnomethodological approach, and the analysis draws on Sack's conversation analysis, to shed a light on the topics of gossip at a micro-analytic level. The contextual sequence analysis, draws the attention to th ...