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dc.contributor.author | Figueras, Carolina | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-02T10:36:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-02T10:36:05Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1049-7323 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/154831 | - |
dc.description.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. | - |
dc.format.extent | 16 p. | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | eng | - |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | - |
dc.relation.isformatof | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314550004 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Qualitative Health Research, 2014 | - |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314550004 | - |
dc.rights | (c) Figueras, Carolina, 2014 | - |
dc.source | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Hispànica, Teoria de la Literatura i Comunicació) | - |
dc.subject.classification | Anorèxia nerviosa | - |
dc.subject.classification | Anàlisi del discurs | - |
dc.subject.classification | Trastorns de la conducta alimentària | - |
dc.subject.classification | Internet | - |
dc.subject.other | Anorexia nervosa | - |
dc.subject.other | Discourse analysis | - |
dc.subject.other | Eating disorders | - |
dc.subject.other | Internet | - |
dc.title | "I Am a Waste of Breath, of Space, of Time": Metaphors of Self in a Pro-Anorexia Group | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | - |
dc.identifier.idgrec | 638706 | - |
dc.date.updated | 2020-04-02T10:36:05Z | - |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | - |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Hispànica, Teoria de la Literatura i Comunicació) |
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