Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Preface""; ""List of the troubled selves""; ""Part 1 Defining the boundaries for problem discourse""; ""Chapter 1 Situating problem discourse in a postmodern landscape""; ""1. The troubled self visits actual and virtual sites""; ""2. Institutional discourse: Between the panopticon and the workshop room""; ""Chapter 2 Theoretical and methodological frameworks""; ""1. Theoretical framework""; ""1.1. Functional approaches to discourse""; ""1.2. Global coherence""; ""1.3. Narrative evaluation""; ""1.4. Worlds of discourse""; ""1.5. Discourse-oriented perspective on figurative language""
  • ""2. Methodological framework""""2.1. Corpora""; ""2.2. Data collection and analysis""; ""3. Overview of the book""; ""Part 2 Figurative bridges in radio, hotline and cyber discourse""; ""Chapter 3 Organizing tropes""; ""1. The troubled caller makes a phone call""; ""1.1. Effective interactions""; ""1.2. Ineffective interactions""; ""2. Summary""; ""Chapter 4 Open your call with a title""; ""1. Topic-focused program: “I advise you to hate your motherâ€?""; ""2. General program: “I donâ€?t know how to get close to my middle sonâ€?""; ""3. Summary""; ""Chapter 5 Figurative conspiracies""
  • ""1. Hotline sufferers""""1.1. “Am I their floor rag?â€?""; ""1.2. “The lion and the snakeâ€?""; ""1.3. “My life is a story in a bookâ€?""; ""2. Summary""; ""Chapter 6 Cyber multilogues""; ""1. Cyberspace sufferers""; ""1.1. “Why not be ahead of my time?â€?""; ""1.2. “I was the best source of light on the marketâ€?""; ""2. Summary""; ""Part 3 The discursive construction of control""; ""Chapter 7 Negotiating the right to advertise the self""; ""1. The healer: “I produce a new mechanism that controls the addictive behaviorâ€?""
  • ""2. The lesbian: “That person didnâ€?t have horns and didnâ€?t have a beardâ€?""""3. Summary""; ""Chapter 8 The construction of addictive disorders in discourse""; ""1. Addictive behaviors and codependency""; ""2. Addicted and codependent selves""; ""2.1. The love addict: “Everything simply started snowballingâ€?""; ""2.2. The obese eater: “Iâ€?m a blenderâ€?""; ""2.3. The sex addict: “But sex was always something strong insideâ€?""; ""2.4. The abstinent gambler: “Iâ€?m not there todayâ€?""; ""2.5. An ex-alcoholicâ€?s wife: “He becomes a nervous wreck that drags you alongâ€?""
  • ""2.6. The anorexicâ€?s mother: “We live in daily hellâ€?""""3. Summary""; ""Part 4 Redefining the boundaries of problem discourse""; ""Chapter 9 Theoretical conclusions and action-oriented implications""; ""1. Theoretical conclusions: Global figurative coherence in a multilogue""; ""1.1. Professional and lay voices reshape the boundaries of problem discourse""; ""1.2. Figurative trans-world journeys""; ""2. Action-oriented implications""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Author index""; ""Subject index""