A Study on the Persuasion Strategies of Online Psychological Counseling from the Perspective of Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_192How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Online Psychological Counseling; Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor; Mood Metaphor; Persuasion Strategy
- Abstract
This study investigates the use of interpersonal grammatical metaphors, particularly mood metaphors, as persuasion strategies in online psychological counseling. A corpus of 150 question-and-answer interactions from a Chinese online counseling platform “Yixinli” was analyzed. Findings reveal that interrogative mood metaphors are predominant, often realized through rhetorical questions to subtly convey advice without direct assertion. Overall, mood metaphors facilitate three key strategies: avoiding confrontational tones via indirectness, fostering rapport through empathetic projection, and stimulating counselees’ self-reflection through open-ended questions. This study highlights how mood metaphors enable psychological counselors to construct a flexible, modest and harmonious discourse for persuasion.
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TY - CONF AU - Shan Wang PY - 2024 DA - 2024/09/02 TI - A Study on the Persuasion Strategies of Online Psychological Counseling from the Perspective of Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor BT - Proceedings of the 2024 10th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2024) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1711 EP - 1717 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_192 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_192 ID - Wang2024 ER -