The linguistic representation of gender violence in (written) media discourse

Santaemilia, José; Maruenda, Sergio

doi:10.1075/jlac.2.2.04san

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“…Previous studies of how GBV is depicted in media discourse mostly employ the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis and sometimes employ corpus-assisted methods to analyze lexical items and collocations as prompts for evoking frames (for a review of CDA and corpus approaches to discourse see (Valvason, 2021)): see, among others, Ehrlich (2003), O'Hara (2012) and Tranchese and Zollo (2013) on English;Fagoaga (1994) and Santaemilia and Maruenda (2014) on Spanish; Abis and Orrù (2016), (Formato, 2017(Formato, , 2019, Busso et al (2021) and Belluati (2021) with references on Italian. As Christopher Hart has pointed out in several works (2018a, 2018b, 2018c, 2021Hart and Fuoli, 2020) the latest CDA practice emphasizes the need to use multiple means of inquiry to avoid a subjective selection and reading of textual data: he recommends triangulation.…”

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Responsibility attribution in gender-based domestic violence: A study bridging corpus-assisted discourse analysis and readers' perception

Meluzzi

Pinelli

Valvason

et al. 2021

Journal of Pragmatics

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This paper investigates how argument structure constructions (see e.g. Goldberg 1995) are used by Italian newspapers to portray gender-based violence (GBV), how their usage affects responsibility attribution to perpetrators, and how such usage is perceived by Italian readers. The assumption is that constructions critically affect meaning: constructional choices prompt different viewpoints of the same event. For the corpus study, we collected 40 articles from local newspapers and annotated 720 constructions denoting GBV events. Constructions suppressing/backgrounding the perpetrator or depicting the event as a bare happening were the most frequent. Building upon these results, for the perception study, 274 participants read an author-constructed news report portraying GBV and answered four speculative questions about the identity of the perpetrator and the victim. Respondents were divided into groups and each group was presented with a stimulus article containing different constructions of the GBV event surrounded by the same information frame. In line with previous studies, it was found that the perpetrator could be assigned less responsibility when the passive and nominal constructions were employed.

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Responsibility attribution in gender-based domestic violence: A study bridging corpus-assisted discourse analysis and readers' perception

Meluzzi

Pinelli

Valvason

et al. 2021

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Visto lo anterior, si bien la violencia contra las mujeres se ha nutrido de la cultura del silencio y la negación, debido a los esfuerzos de movimientos feministas, de organismos internacionales y de la puesta en marcha de políticas públicas (De Miguel Álvarez, 2003;ONU Mujeres, 2020), paulatinamente, tiene más espacios en los medios de comunicación (Comas-D' Argemir, Dolors. 2014), sin que eso evite la tematización y la rutinización (Santaemilia, José y Maruenda, Sergio, 2014); con una postura acrítica que, como evidencian los resultados obtenidos por María Soledad Rojas-Rajs (2014), deja por fuera de la problemática la responsabilidad de los estados y las sociedades; por lo que la contribución de los medios de comunicación a la erradicación de las distintas formas de violencia contra las mujeres es escasa (Bandrés-Goldáraz, Elena, 2011).…”

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Violencia contra las mujeres en las noticias de portada: invisibilidad y alienación.

Chalá-Mejía,

Fernanda Moncayo

2023

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Tomando como referencia el esquema de los tres mensajes, propuesto por Roland Barthes, se analizan las portadas de dos periódicos ecuatorianos (uno generalista y otro sensacionalista) para conocer cómo presentaron en sus portadas una noticia sobre una violación a una adolescente en un autobús escolar. Los hallazgos sugieren que las imágenes invisibilizan desde la presencia y que el lenguaje lo hace desde la negación de la agencia de las mujeres.

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“…A large number of studies on appraisal in the newspaper have been conducted in various discourse namely sexuality, politics, gender, education, culture, religion (Bartley & Benitez-Castro, 2016;Chalimah et al, 2018;Jakaza, 2013;Khoo et al, 2012;Pranoto & Yuwono, 2017;Santaemilia & Maruenda, 2014;Wigunadi, 2014) and also in different sections on newspaper such as commentary and editorial (Arunsirot, 2012;Hai & Nguyen, 2019;Homayounzadeh & Mehrpour, 2013). Meanwhile, in the different sections of the newspaper, Arunsirot (2012) explored the newspaper commentaries and found negative evaluative lexis as predominant lexical strategies.…”

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The attitude of Japanese newspapers in narrating disaster events: Appraisal in critical discourse study

Puspita

Pranoto

2021

SiELE

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During the event of disasters, news media are considered as the most visible of all parties involved in the response and rehabilitation. News media frame disaster events in certain attitudes, which then significantly resonates with the magnitude of the disaster. This research aims at investigating the attitude of the Japanese newspaper in narrating disaster events. Using the descriptive qualitative method, this study adopts the appraisal theory (Martin White, 2005) to embed and reveal appraisal in attitude features. The data were taken from three Japanese online newspapers reporting disaster events from 2019 to early 2020 with a total number of 100 articles. The findings show that of all attitudinal features, judgement is found as the most frequent source, followed by appreciation, and affect. It reveals newspapers’ tendency to emphasize the attitude and to construe the evaluation toward the events or phenomena rather than revealing the feelings or emotions experienced by the emoter(s). Interestingly, the distribution of the attitudinal implies the attitude of Japanese newspapers on reporting disaster which is highly emphasized on admiring, criticizing, praise, and condemning disaster events. It is also found that the negative features are slightly higher than the positive ones, but to refer to the phenomena rather than the victims. This lexical strategy proves that Japanese newspapers play the role in mainstreaming disaster management policy which focuses on the reconstruction and rehabilitation after disaster events.

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The linguistic representation of gender violence in (written) media discourse

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Responsibility attribution in gender-based domestic violence: A study bridging corpus-assisted discourse analysis and readers' perception

Responsibility attribution in gender-based domestic violence: A study bridging corpus-assisted discourse analysis and readers' perception

Violencia contra las mujeres en las noticias de portada: invisibilidad y alienación.

The attitude of Japanese newspapers in narrating disaster events: Appraisal in critical discourse study

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