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Title: | "I Am a Waste of Breath, of Space, of Time": Metaphors of Self in a Pro-Anorexia Group |
Author: | Figueras, Carolina |
Keywords: | Anorèxia nerviosa Anàlisi del discurs Trastorns de la conducta alimentària Internet Anorexia nervosa Discourse analysis Eating disorders Internet |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Abstract: | According to recent research on eating disorders, heavy users of pro-anorexia (pro-ana) sites show higher levels of disordered eating and more severe impairment of quality of life than non-heavy users. A better understanding of how pro-ana members self-present in the virtual world could shed some light on these offline behaviors. Through discourse analysis, I examined the metaphors the members of a pro-ana group invoked in their personal profiles on a popular social networking site, to talk about the self. I applied the Metaphor Identification Procedure to 757 text profiles. I identified four key metaphorical constructions in pro-ana members' self-descriptions: self as space, self as weight, perfecting the self, and the social self. These four main metaphors represented discourse strategies, both to create a collective pro-ana identity and to enact an individual identity as pro-ana. In this article, I discuss the implications of these findings for the treatment of eating disorders. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314550004 |
It is part of: | Qualitative Health Research, 2014 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/154831 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314550004 |
ISSN: | 1049-7323 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Hispànica, Teoria de la Literatura i Comunicació) |
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