ChenJ2021

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ChenJ2021
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Jinshi Chen
Title “You are in Trouble!”: A Discursive Psychological Analysis of Threatening Language in Chinese Cellphone Fraud Interactions
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Tag(s) EMCA, Chinese, Fraud, Discursive psychology
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Year 2021
Language English
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Journal International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
Volume 34
Number 4
Pages 1065–1092
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DOI 10.1007/s11196-020-09765-y
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Abstract

Currently cellphone fraudsters often use language to threaten and bully victims. From discursive psychological perspective, the present study applies conversation analysis to discuss fraudsters’ threatening language in Chinese cellphone fraud conversations. The authentic data are collected from Chinese media which report legal news or conduct public legal education on the battle against cellphone frauds. Results of the study show that: (1) cellphone fraudsters construct their false identities through information gap and information sharing in their turn-taking designs, which brings victims into the threatening fraud interactions; (2) fraudsters use such conversational skills in a threatening tone as repetition, interruption, higher pitch, louder speech and so on to trigger victims’ psychological panic; (3) fraudsters’ discursive practices are situated for the threatening actions based on prepared and designed scripts. The findings of the study are expected to provide references for preventing cellphone fraud and fighting against fraudsters’ threats and bullies.

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