While the media circumstance is getting sensationalized and the news is becoming gossipy, audiences develop the gossips which are chosen and discussed on their own decision through the BBS system and kinds of gossips are recorded on the BBS system. This study attempts to analyze the structures and functions of gossips as a genre by means of analyzing the content of gossip, present on the PTT BBS system, to realize the attribution of gossip.
The result of this research is that although the gossips are written from different users of the BBS system, there is a specific narrative manner of the gossips, such as the rhetoric and the narrator ’s point of view. Hoping this study could provide a basic understanding to further exploration about the reaction and psychology motivation of audience toward the gossip.