Troubled Talk

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ISBN: 9783110184150 | 311018415X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/30/2005

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In this book, Irit Kupferberg and David Green ' a discourse analyst and a clinical psychologist' host 21 troubled human beings in an attempt to study how these sufferers negotiate their problems in the media, hotline, and cyber talk with professional and lay others. The authors show that the presentation of one's troubles in detailed personal stories as well as succinct figurative forms often 'lubricates' interpersonal communication, provided that the troubled selves are deemed media-worthy by the institutional representatives.

Preface

vii

List of the troubled selves

Part 1 Defining the boundaries for problem discourse

Chapter 1 Situating problem discourse in a postmodern landscape

(12)

1. The troubled self visits actual and virtual sites

(2)

2. Institutional discourse: Between the panopticon and the workshop room

(10)

Chapter 2 Theoretical and methodological frameworks

(32)

1. Theoretical framework

(18)

1.1. Functional approaches to discourse

(6)

1.2. Global coherence

(1)

1.3. Narrative evaluation

(3)

1.4. Worlds of discourse

(3)

1.5. Discourse-oriented perspective on figurative language

(5)

2. Methodological framework

(8)

2.1. Corpora

(5)

2.1.1. "The two of us together and each of us alone" corpus

(1)

2.1.2. "Night birds talk" corpus

(1)

2.1.3. Hotline corpus

(1)

2.1.4. Cyberspace corpus

(1)

2.2. Data collection and analysis

(3)

3. Overview of the book

(6)

Part 2 Figurative bridges in radio, hotline and cyber discourse

Chapter 3 Organizing tropes

(22)

1. The troubled caller makes a phone call

(17)

1.1. Effective interactions

(9)

1.2. Ineffective interactions

(8)

2. Summary

(5)

Chapter 4 Open your call with a title

(24)

1. Topic-focused program: "I advise you to hate your mother"

(13)

2. General program: "I don't know how to get close to my middle son"

(8)

3. Summary

(3)

Chapter 5 Figurative conspiracies

(14)

1. Hotline sufferers

(11)

1.1. "Am I their floor rag?"

(6)

1.2. "The lion and the snake"

(3)

1.3. "My life is a story in a book"

102

(2)

2. Summary

104

(3)

Chapter 6 Cyber multilogues

107

(24)

1. Cyberspace sufferers

107

(19)

1.1. "Why not be ahead of my time?"

107

(13)

1.2. "I was the best source of light on the market"

120

(6)

2. Summary

126

(5)

Part 3 The discursive construction of control

Chapter 7 Negotiating the right to advertise the self

131

(10)

1. The healer: "I produce a new mechanism that controls the addictive behavior"

131

(5)

2. The lesbian: "That person didn't have horns and didn't have a beard"

136

(3)

3. Summary

139

(2)

Chapter 8 The construction of addictive disorders in discourse

141

(26)

1. Addictive behaviors and codependency

142

(2)

2. Addicted and codependent selves

144

(16)

2.1. The love addict: "Everything simply started snowballing"

144

(4)

2.2. The obese eater: "I'm a blender"

148

(3)

2.3. The sex addict: "But sex was always something strong inside"

151

(1)

2.4. The abstinent gambler: "I'm not there today"

152

(2)

2.5. An ex-alcoholic's wife: "He becomes a nervous wreck that drags you along"

154

(4)

2.6. The anorexic's mother: "We live in daily hell"

158

(2)

3. Summary

160

(7)

Part 4 Redefining the boundaries of problem discourse

Chapter 9 Theoretical conclusions and action-oriented implications

167

(12)

1. Theoretical conclusions: Global figurative coherence in a multilogue

168

(8)

1.1. Professional and lay voices reshape the boundaries of problem discourse

168

(4)

1.2. Figurative trans-world journeys

172

(4)

2. Action-oriented implications

176

(3)

Epilogue

179

(2)

Notes

181

(12)

References

193

(22)

Author index

215

(4)

Subject index

219

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