Open AccessUnderstanding an Intimate Partner Violence Victim’s Online Posts Using Discourse Analysis
Author(s) -
Shuhong Luo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of comprehensive nursing research and care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-3846
DOI - 10.33790/jcnrc1100126
Subject(s) - denial , identity (music) , online identity , domestic violence , psychology , the internet , social psychology , social media , suicide prevention , social identity theory , poison control , criminology , internet privacy , political science , social group , medicine , medical emergency , law , computer science , physics , world wide web , acoustics , psychoanalysis
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a major public health concern. A victim’s voice deserves to be heard and considered seriously. Some Chinese victims choose to seek informal help from the public internet discussion forum anonymously. The study was to explore how a victim’s social language in her online posts enacted the social identities of an IPV victim. Discourse analysis was used as an analytical method. A segment of a victim’s online posts were used to for this analysis. The study focused on the linguistic features of the online post that made the IPV victim’s social language distinctive. The victim’s identities as a wife and as a victim were expressed by her social language. Victim’s little awareness of the perpetrator’s identity and her denial of victim identity were discussed.