tell-worthy

comparative more tell-worthy · superlative most tell-worthy

1. Worthy to be told

   [...] 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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   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