“…From a linguistic perspective, few studies focused on celebrity gossip that aims to promote interest in celebrities and reinforce their stardom in the minds of a mass audience. Breeze (2009), for example, reported that the discourse of celebrity gossip in the British tabloid, The Sun, employed several rhetorical and linguistic tools like the creation of identity chains, where the celebrity was referred to several times across a text using different yet co-referential elements. Members of an identity chain usually contained heavy noun phrases like "the self-styled king of pop", which serve as an "agenda-setting device which collapsed debatable issues into uncontested information bites" (Breeze, 2009, p. 10).…”