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Publication details [#66897]

Motschenbacher, Heiko and Elvis Coimbra-Gomes. 2019. Language, normativity, and sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD): A corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Language in Society 48 (4) : 565–584.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communication | critical discourse analysis | desire | health | men's language | mental state | normativity | online interaction | sexual identity
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper presents a case study of the discursive construction of sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD) as it surfaces in posts to an online mental health forum. The inquiry focuses on the way normativity regulates communication about sexual identities, desires, and practices in a corpus of online posts by heterosexual men who pathologically doubt their sexual identity.