Prior research on coercive control has focused on coercive behavioral tactics to better understand how coercion is exacted in abusive relationships. Furthering this body of research, this study extends coercive behavior to the linguistic domain, by examining the linguistic correlates of long-term coercive relationships. Using transcripts of wiretapped conversations, spanning a 2-year period, between two pimps and four women they sexually exploited, this study examined the distinct linguistic manifestation of asymmetric power in commercial sexual exploitation. Our findings suggest a complementary linguistic dimension to the commonly reported behavioral repertoire of coercive control tactics. Specifically, the victims consistently complied with the microregulation and surveillance presumed by their pimps by engaging in discursive overelaboration. This overelaboration often included details of their location, activity, and timing—and were designed to justify those as work-and profit-relevant. This pattern of pre-emptive, unsolicited overelaboration that the commercial sexually exploited women exhibited toward their pimps was almost nonexistent in their personal conversations with other individuals. These results open the opportunity for the indirect measurement of interpersonal abuse, making it less dependent on explicit physical abuse and more broadly situated within the coercive environment.

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强制控制的语言指标：性交易叙述中的证据

先前对强制控制的研究主要集中在强制行为策略上，以更好地了解在虐待关系中如何强制执行。通过检查长期强制关系的语言相关性，本研究将强制行为扩展到语言领域，进一步推进这一研究。本研究使用跨越 2 年的窃听谈话记录，在两名皮条客和他们性剥削的四名女性之间进行，研究了商业性剥削中不对称权力的独特语言表现。我们的研究结果表明，对普遍报道的强制性控制策略的行为曲目具有互补的语言维度。具体而言，受害者通过进行过分阐述，始终遵守皮条客所假定的微观监管和监视。这种过度阐述通常包括他们的位置、活动和时间的细节——旨在证明这些与工作和利润相关。这种先发制人、不请自来的过度阐述模式，在她们与其他人的私人谈话中几乎不存在，这种模式在商业上受到性剥削的女性对她们的皮条客表现出来的。这些结果为间接测量人际虐待提供了机会，使其更少依赖于明确的身体虐待，并且更广泛地位于强制性环境中。在她们与其他人的私人谈话中，几乎不存在商业性剥削女性向皮条客展示的未经请求的过度阐述。这些结果为间接测量人际虐待提供了机会，使其更少依赖于明确的身体虐待，并且更广泛地位于强制性环境中。在她们与其他人的私人谈话中，几乎不存在商业性剥削女性向皮条客展示的未经请求的过度阐述。这些结果为间接测量人际虐待提供了机会，使其更少依赖于明确的身体虐待，并且更广泛地位于强制性环境中。