scholarly journals Corpus-driven insights into the discourse of women survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Sánchez-Moya
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Three Stages

Despite its ubiquity, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is still under-researched from a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) perspective. Thus, this paper investigates the discourse of women survivors of IPV focusing on a corpus-driven examination of the data. This is done after applying the text-analysis software tool LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) to a 120,000-word corpus collected from an anonymised, public, online forum available to IPV survivors. I contrast a plethora of linguistic phenomena in three online communities embedded within this forum (‘Is it Abuse?’, ‘Getting out’ and ‘Life after abuse’) in the attempt to sketch out how the discursive output varies across these three stages. This paper shows how pronominal distribution plays a role in the forging of collective identity. Differences in the emotional tone across the three explored groups are also identified. Useful though these corpus-driven pointers may be, this study also warns of the precaution with which findings solely deriving from quantitative analyses need to be treated.

scholarly journals From the uncertainty of violence to life after abuse: Discursive transitions among female survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in online contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-178
Author(s):  
Alfonso Sánchez-Moya
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
The Many

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is undoubtedly one of the most worrying concerns in today’s global societies. Due to the many intertwined factors that explain the persistence of this reality among people from all sorts of backgrounds, finding a uniform strategy to cope with this social issue is far from unproblematic. In this study, I contribute to a growing field of research that examines the discourse of female survivors of IPV in online contexts. The main objective is to identify relevant linguistic patterns used by women to represent themselves and their perpetrators in a publicly-available online forum. More specifically, I seek to ascertain the discursive traits that characterise women in an initial stage in contrast to a final stage within an abusive relationship. To this end, I adopt a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies approach in a digital corpus of around 136,000 words, which are analysed with the software tool Sketch Engine. Findings show the most salient discursive traits that characterise IPV online discourse. Additionally, and drawing on verb patterns ascertained in the corpus and their semantic categorisation, I also connect linguistic textual evidence to the power imbalances that sustain this social phenomenon.

scholarly journals Effect of an Advocacy Intervention on Mental Health in Chinese Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

JAMA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 304 (5) ◽  
pp. 536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Tiwari ◽  
Daniel Yee Tak Fong ◽  
Kwan Hok Yuen ◽  
Helina Yuk ◽  
Polly Pang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Intimate Partner

scholarly journals Patterns of Medication Use Among Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

2007 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 460-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wuest ◽  
Marilyn Merritt-Gray ◽  
Barbara Lent ◽  
Colleen Varcoe ◽  
Alison J. Connors ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Intimate Partner

Women’s Experiences of the Intersections of Work and Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 152483802093386
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. D. MacGregor ◽  
Najibullah Naeemzadah ◽  
Casey L. Oliver ◽  
Tanaz Javan ◽  
Barbara J. MacQuarrie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Impact

The impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) on work, workplaces, and employment are receiving increasing attention from researchers, employers, and policy makers, but research synthesis is needed to develop evidence-based strategies to address the problem. The purpose of this review of qualitative research is to explore abused women’s experiences of the intersections of work and IPV, including the range of benefits and drawbacks of work. Multiple search strategies, including systematic database searches by a professional librarian, resulted in 2,306 unique articles that were independently screened for eligibility by two team members. Qualitative research articles were eligible for inclusion and were also required to (1) sample women with past and/or current IPV experience and (2) report results regarding women’s experiences or views of the benefits and/or drawbacks of work. Ultimately, 32 qualitative research articles involving 757 women were included and analyzed using thematic synthesis. Results revealed the potential of work to offer survivors a great range of benefits and drawbacks, many of which have received little research attention. The importance of work for women survivors has been emphasized in the literature, often with respect to financial independence facilitating the leaving process. However, our research underscores how the impact of work for many women survivors is not straightforward and, for some, involves a “trade-off” of benefits and drawbacks. Those developing work-related interventions, services (e.g., career counseling), or policies for women who experience IPV should consider the range of benefits and drawbacks in their planning, as “one-size-fits-all” solutions are unlikely to be effective.

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