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Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Mitigation in Advice Figueras, Carolina Psicologia cognitiva Trastorns de la conducta alimentària Salut mental Cognitive psychology Eating disorders Mental health The present study examines the cognitive and affective dimensions of mitigation when providing peer advice in a mental health online support group. The corpus was comprised of 45 threads, with a total of 559 posts and 104,578 words, selected from an anorexia nervosa recovery forum. The analysis was conducted in a psychological paradigm that highlighted the role of cognition and emotion in the advice-giving act. The theoretical framework aligned Martinovski et al.’s (Proceedings of cognitive science, Stresa, 2005. http://ict.usc.edu/pubs/Mitigation%20Theory%20An%20Integrated%20Approach.pdf) model of mitigation with Sperber and Wilson’s (Relevance: communication and cognition. Blackwell, Oxford, 1986/1995) relevance theory. The findings suggest that the cognitive processes of mindreading, argumentation, and empathy were linguistically construed in the advice-giving messages as coping mechanisms to confront the stressor of managing a life-threatening disorder in interaction. In the context of the forum advisory exchange, these three operations were deployed as discursive mitigating strategies to protect life rather than to protect face when negotiating the meanings of the illness. 2026-04-13T15:47:52Z 2026-04-13T15:47:52Z 2019-10-29 2026-04-13T15:47:52Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 2509-9507 https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228869 692621 https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228869 eng Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-019-00064-x Corpus Pragmatics, 2019, vol. 4, num.1, p. 31-57 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-019-00064-x (c) Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 43 p. application/pdf Springer Nature Switzerland