Tranchese, Alessia (2013) Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics at Work in the Deconstruction of Rape Discourse in the British Press. [Tesi di dottorato]

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Item Type: Tesi di dottorato
Lingua: English
Title: Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics at Work in the Deconstruction of Rape Discourse in the British Press
Creators:
CreatorsEmail
Tranchese, Alessiaalessiatranchese@gmail.com
Date: 31 March 2013
Number of Pages: 290
Institution: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Department: Scienze Politiche
Scuola di dottorato: Scienze psicologiche e pedagogiche
Dottorato: Lingua inglese per scopi speciali
Ciclo di dottorato: 25
Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato:
nomeemail
Di Martino, Gabrielladimartig@unina.it
Tutor:
nomeemail
Torresi, Iraira.torresi@unibo.it
Date: 31 March 2013
Number of Pages: 290
Uncontrolled Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, media studies, gender studies, violence against women, British press
Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: Area 10 - Scienze dell'antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche > L-LIN/12 - Lingua e traduzione - lingua inglese
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2013 09:52
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2021 01:00
URI: http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/9419

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyse and describe the representation of rape crimes in the British quality press. This analysis explores the linguistic and discursive strategies used in a corpus of news reports about incidents of rape in four British broadsheets: The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and The Times. Integrating a quantitative and a qualitative approach to textual analysis, i.e. Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this study examines a wide range of topics related to the representation of gender in the British mainstream press when covering incidents of rape. Some of the topics explored in this study include: victim-blaming strategies, rape myths, the law-and-order approach to fighting this crime, as well as forms of resistant discourse.

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