Online Child Sexual Grooming Discourse

"This Element examines technology-assisted grooming of children for sex - henceforth, online grooming - as an illegal practice of communicative manipulation and, as such, something that research within the academic field of forensic linguistics is ideally placed to help counter"--

List of contents

Series Preface; 1 Introduction; 2. Online Grooming as Manipulation Discourse: Concept and Method; 3. Online Grooming as Language Action; 4. Power in Online Grooming Discourse; 5. Dismantling Agent/Victim Dichotomies: Children's Discourse during Online Grooming; 6. Conclusion: Applications of Research; References.

Summary

This Element examines technology-assisted grooming of children for sex – henceforth, online grooming – as an illegal practice of communicative manipulation and, as such, something that research within the academic field of forensic linguistics is ideally placed to help counter.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Evans, Evans Craig, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria (Swansea University) Evans Lorenzo-Dus, Lorenzo-Dus Nuria, Ruth Mullineux-Morgan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009314640
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0931464-0
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Criminal or forensic psychology, Child welfare, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Computational Linguistics, Child welfare and youth services, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Computational and corpus linguistics