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controlling language: a standalone construct

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controllinglanguage1 CONSTRUCTControlling languageMILLER · HEALTH COMMUNICATION

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Health communication

directive, freedom-threatening wording such as must and should in persuasive messages, which provokes reactance.

In health communication, controlling language refers to directive, freedom-threatening wording such as must and should in persuasive messages, which provokes reactance. This meaning comes from Miller (2007) in Human Communication Research.[1]

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restoration postscript1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructmust2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructsreactance4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

  1. Miller, C. H., Lane, L. T., Deatrick, L. M., Young, A. M., & Potts, K. A. (2007). Psychological Reactance and Promotional Health Messages: The Effects of Controlling Language, Lexical Concreteness, and the Restoration of Freedom. Human Communication Research, 33(2), 219-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2007.00297.x

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