Abstract
Research showed that the communication ofsocial support in online self-help groups wastherapeutic to participants. However, previousstudies tended to focus on the content sharedand have overlooked the communicativebehaviors of the communication. Drawing uponthe framework of discourse analysis, this studymanifests the communicative patterns of thecommunication of social support in online selfhelp groups for anxiety and depression. It isargued that understanding communicativebehaviors is beneficial for people to gauge thetherapeutic effect of participation in the groupsand to become integrated into the groups.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018 |
| Editors | Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Yu-Yin Hsu, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| Pages | 807-813 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2018 |
| Event | 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 1 Dec 2018 → 3 Dec 2018 https://aclanthology.org/volumes/Y18-1/ (Conference Proceedings) |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC |
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Conference
| Conference | 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | Hong Kong |
| City | Hong Kong |
| Period | 1/12/18 → 3/12/18 |
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