De Montfort University
A Linguistic Assessment of Domestic Abuse: Determining Patterns of Politeness Theory and Persuasion Utilised to Facilitate Abuse and Disguise Abusive Personalities
Abstract
dc:description.abstractDomestic abuse is an issue which persists within society, and its subtle, manipulative methods provide a barrier for abuse detection for victims, police officers and prosecution services. The subsequent thesis adopts a holistic approach in determining the barriers of abuse detection through exploring courtship stages to relationship breakdowns. Forms of manipulation reside within uses of politeness and persuasion, and we thus must determine the patterns of such in order to explain abusive behaviours and determine abuse. The present thesis concludes that politeness methods are utilised to groom victims, to perpetrate and mask abusive methods, and persuasion is utilised to entrap victims into their domestic abuse relationship and to influence victims into positions of control without their recognition. Linguistic applications of politeness and persuasion to domestic abuse have not yet emerged within academic research, and the current research thus contributes to knowledge by presenting such linguistic patterns as instruments to identify abuse, tackling the barriers of abuse detection.
Degree
thesis:*- Name dc:type.qualificationname
- PhD
- Level dc:type.qualificationlevel
- Doctoral
- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- De Montfort University
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Flanagan, Tanya