Telling about problems and giving advice in an Internet discussion forum: some discourse features

By P. Morrow. 2006

172 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Human-Computer Interaction

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/51d1045347a81a6aa91f532ac16e105b2cc3f944

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Citations in the corpus

• Problem presentation and responses on an online forum for young people who self-harm (2011, background): “…suggested that advice givers on an online depression forum prefaced their advice with ‘expressions of empathy, solidarity and positive regard, [which] served to create a ‘‘friendly’’ and non-threatening discourse context in which advice could be safely offered and accepted’ (Morrow, 2006: 543).”
• Sensitive Self-disclosures, Responses, and Social Support on Instagram: The Case of #Depression (2017, background): “Discourse features of messages posted to discussion forums about depression have been found to be problem messages, advice messages and thanks messages [53].”