The Language of Pick-Up Artists
Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Language of Pick-Up Artists
Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry
About This Book
This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex. Drawing on a multi-million-word corpus comprising data from online forums, social media, informational websites, and YouTube videos, the volume explores the verbal practices and narrative framing techniques that pick-up artists (PUAs) draw upon in their interactions with women and the terminology-heavy language used in teaching pick-up to foster perceptions of scientific validity. The book also unpacks videos and reports of live interactions to study naturally occurring PUA discourse from different perspectives but also to more closely examine conceptual metaphors of competition and violence and critically reflect on the ethical considerations of working with such communities. This book will appeal to students and scholars in such disciplines as discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, computer-mediated communication, and language and media, as well as those interested in the study of language use online.
Frequently asked questions
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1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Pick-Up Artists: Who Are They?
(1) Not to be confused on scoring with a chick but I scored a chick’s number but this is NOT your traditional N-Close. For those who know my mad skills at pulling VIP table girls away from their friends, N-closing dime pieces you now know I am not just a one trick pony. I N-closed a HB from work. I won’t rate this chick cuz I really like her and some girls are off scale. I no longer get Oneitis but I think what is happening here is this girl is GF1 material and acting like she wants to be my girlfriend.1 GF is an acronym for girlfriend. (FRR_puacom005)2
(2) Due to the loud music and our physical positioning I wasn’t able to engage the obstacle as much as the target. I was standing beside my target and did a few smaller attraction routines (Cold Reads and Teases) on her, while making little side comments to the obstacle. After I few minutes the girls made excuses and told me they have ‘to go the the bathroom’, but they will be back in a few minutes. We all know what that usually means and I wasn’t expecting them to come back. So I opened the next set which popped up next to me and even gamed a guy for the next minutes (Short setting, it was a target rich environment = good training ground).(FRR_venus032)
(3) setting mass setting dates and then getting good at running your dates is going to be the key to getting a lot of results okay and you have to be able to acquire enough leads and then text properly in order to get the dates set up but then you have to be able to run the dates properly okay someone that has a whole bunch of dates that is poor at running their dates is gonna have a bottleneck and that part of the funnel is not gonna get very many results because it’s gonna be closing up from them consistently messing up their dates(PUA-How-To_Anthony4)
1.3 Why Study Pick-Up Artists?
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pick-Up Artists and the Seduction Industry
- 3 Lexical Aspects of Pick-Up Artist Discourse
- 4 The Pragmatics of Pick-Up Artist Interactions
- 5 Conversations in the Field
- 6 Teaching and Selling Seduction
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix A: Transcription Conventions
- Appendix B: Lists of Videos Included in PUA-Lecture and PUA-How-To
- Glossary of Pick-Up Artist Terms
- References
- Index