Mad Linguistics: A corpus-based and service-user informed critical discourse analysis of online Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder fora.

强迫症(OCD)是一种精神疾病，大约占总人口的3%-4%(Krzanowska和Kuleta，2017)。在《精神疾病诊断和统计手册V》(美国精神病学协会，2013年)中，它被归类为与强迫症相关的障碍，其特征是“不受欢迎的强迫性思维”或“侵入性思维”，以及减轻患者焦虑的重复性强迫。亨特和布鲁克斯(2020)的研究为将语料库语言学和语篇分析三角测量到精神疾病患者使用的在线论坛提供了一个令人信服的案例，以更好地理解他们的生活经历。事实上，Friedrich(2015：99)认为强迫症在很大程度上被社会误解了，批评性话语分析的框架，结合在线论坛等计算机媒介交流的分析，可以帮助澄清对强迫症的常见误解。以往的研究围绕着强迫症的语言结构展开(克纳普顿，2018)和话语分析(科英布拉-戈麦斯，2020)。我提议的研究是对强迫症现有论坛的第一次调查，这将有助于更广泛地理解这种疾病是如何由患者经历和构建的。

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental illness that affects approximately 3-4% ofthe general population (Krzanowska and Kuleta, 2017). In the Diagnostic and StatisticalManual for Mental Disorders V (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), it is classified as acompulsive-related disorder characterised by 'unwanted obsessive thoughts', or 'intrusivethoughts', and repetitive compulsions that alleviate the anxiety felt by sufferers. Research byHunt and Brookes (2020) makes a compelling case for triangulating corpus linguistics anddiscourse analysis to online fora used by sufferers of mental illnesses to better understandtheir lived experiences. Indeed, Friedrich (2015:99) argues OCD is largely misunderstood insociety and that a framework of critical discourse analysis, combined with analysingcomputer-mediated communication such as online fora, can help to elucidate commonmisconceptions about OCD. There have been previous research around linguisticconstructions of OCD through semi-structured interviews (Knapton, 2018) and discursiveanalyses of OCD subtypes (Coimbra-Gomes, 2020). My proposed research is the firstenquiry into existing fora discourses of OCD that will benefit a wider understanding of howthis illness is experienced and constructed by sufferers.