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On the F-word: a corpus-based analysis of the media representation of Feminism in British and German press discourse,1990-2009

Jaworska, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7465-2245 and Krishnamurty, R. (2012) On the F-word: a corpus-based analysis of the media representation of Feminism in British and German press discourse,1990-2009. Discourse and Society, 23 (4). pp. 401-431. ISSN 0957-9265

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1177/0957926512441113

Abstract/Summary

Research in social psychology has shown that public attitudes towards feminism are mostly based on stereotypical views linking feminism with leftist politics and lesbian orientation. It is claimed that such attitudes are due to the negative and sexualised media construction of feminism. Studies concerned with the media representation of feminism seem to confirm this tendency. While most of this research provides significant insights into the representation of feminism, the findings are often based on a small sample of texts. Also, most of the research was conducted in an Anglo-American setting. This study attempts to address some of the shortcomings of previous work by examining the discourse of feminism in a large corpus of German and British newspaper data. It does so by employing the tools of Corpus Linguistics. By investigating the collocation profiles of the search term feminism, we provide evidence of salient discourse patterns surrounding feminism in two different cultural contexts.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > German
ID Code:34503
Publisher:Sage Publications

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