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The discursive representation of online grooming in children’s accounts within child help line contexts

Carmen Pérez Sabater Orcid Logo, Andrea García-Montes Orcid Logo, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus Orcid Logo

ELUA: Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante, Volume: 41, Issue: 41, Pages: 5 - 20

Swansea University Author: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus Orcid Logo

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This article pioneers analysis of children’s experiences of Online Child Sexual Grooming (OCSG) as relayed to counsellors at a child helpline in Spain. The data comprises the transcribed record of all the child-counsellor telephone conversations about OCSG made to Fundación ANAR’s child helpline ser...

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