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tell-worthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From tell + -worthy.

Meanings

1. Worthy to be told
   • For a narrative to be tell-worthy, it should be about the breach of a human plight, a deviation of a canonical script. Suicide and intentional pursuit of death are tell-worthy events. 2004, Jerry S. Piven, The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History:
   • But it is only at more advanced levels that it begins to be retooled at story openings in the function of a disjunct marker (Jefferson 1978) which announces that something different is coming up (i.e., the launching of a tell-worthy story) or as part of a yes-but turn architecture (Pomerantz 1984) during prefatory talk that functions to push an upcoming disagreement back into the turn-in-progress. 2015, Teresa Cadierno, Søren Wind Eskildsen, Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning:
   • [...] based on the assumption that the precipitating conditions and state of being 'split in pieces' result in a tell-worthy emotional account. 2015, Matthew T. Prior, Emotion and Discourse in L2 Narrative Research:

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