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Healing and Comfort on the Net: Gender and Emotions in Violent Domestic Environments

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The present article analyses the online expression of emotions in environments of extreme distress. In a Computer Mediated Communication environment, support communities are created worldwide, also to help in cases of violence against women. The role that gender plays in virtual communication and the language used by women in these contexts has been analysed to determine its particularities. These women express their pain and their support towards each other by means of common and not so commonly used adjectives, both positive and negative. Likewise, they tend to use greater amount of social words, and few self-references.

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    (Family violence in Canada: A statistical profile, 2013).

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    I have kept original spelling in all examples.

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    http://www.liwc.net

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    http://www.cnvc.org/

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    http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/tagant/

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    Published by Lexical Analysis Software and Oxford University Press.

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Mestre-Mestre, E.M. (2016). Healing and Comfort on the Net: Gender and Emotions in Violent Domestic Environments. In: Romero-Trillo, J. (eds) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016. Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41733-2_4

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