Using a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) Approach to Investigate Constructions of Identities in Media Reporting Surrounding Mega Sports Events: The Case of the London Olympics 2012

Jaworska, Sylvia

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“…The way in which words are grouped provides representations of socio-culturally significant concepts and help identify discursive patters. Examining and comparing keywords will 'reveal aspects of identity constructions' (Jaworska, 2016). Also, keywords 'may be shown to be indicative of the writer's position and identity, as well as the discourse community with its values and beliefs about the subject matter' (Bondi, 2001, p. 7).…”

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“…This explanation is frequently examined taking close account of the social, political and historical context (Partington, 2014). The use of CADS has yielded results in the field of political discourse (Aluthman, 2018), the construction of nationalism and identity (Jaworska, 2016;Vessey, 2013Vessey, , 2016, and discourse analysis in the press (Branun & Charteris-Black, 2015;Lutzky & Kehoe, 2019;Sánchez Ramos, in press/2022;Pena Díaz, in press/2022), in addition to the depiction of immigrants or refugees (Baker et. al.…”

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The Europe of Brexit: a corpus-assisted discourse study of identities in the press

Pena¹,

Ramos²

2021

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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Drawing on a what is known as corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) approach (Baker et al., 2008), this article will research the construction of different identities by means of the language used in two newspaper articles on Brexit from the Spanish El País and the British The Guardian, to examine how these identities are constructed through media discourse at the time following the Brexit referendum (2016-2018). Media discourse surrounding Brexit is examined under the consideration of media power. A comparable corpus made up of original newspaper articles about Brexit was used to carry out the analysis, identifying statistically significant keywords compared with a reference corpus with the aim of providing an example of how the British and Spanish press construct identity.

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The Europe of Brexit: a corpus-assisted discourse study of identities in the press

Pena¹,

Ramos²

2021

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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“…CDS is used to perform an in-depth analysis and interpretation of the corpus tool resulting by relating textual features to the sociocultural, historical, and political contexts in which the text is situated (Fairclough 1992;Reisigl and Wodak 2001;van Dijk 1993). Using a CADS approach has been proven to be highly beneficial in the analysis of data (e.g., Freake et al 2011;Jaworska 2016), especially Twitter data (Baker and McEnery 2015). In this study, I follow Baker and McEnery (2015) useful approach for unpacking and analyzing the corpus of this study.…”

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Driving Change on Twitter: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the Twitter Debates on the Saudi Ban on Women Driving

Altoaimy

2018

Social Sciences

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This paper explores how Twitter has been used in the debate on women's right to drive in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The overarching aim of this investigation is to explain how gender roles and the relationship between the genders are navigated in these debates. For Saudi Arabian women, social media platforms such as Twitter provide a unique space to express opinions and highlight areas of concern in a way that they are unable to in any other public sphere. The exploration of the debate on women's right to drive in the KSA was achieved by collecting a body of tweets in Arabic addressing this topic from the last three months of 2015. Following a corpus-assisted discourse studies approach, this paper analyzes arguments by Twitter users discussing the KSA's ban on women drivers, which may have contributed to women being granted the right to drive and also raised awareness of the restrictions imposed on women.

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“…Also, the strong association of 'women' with 'British' suggests that, in the context of the Olympic Games, women, specifically gold medal winners, are overwhelmingly 'used' to celebrate nationalistic aspirations. As shown in a study by Jaworska (2016), women who 'only' received a bronze medal, were less frequently referred to and not strongly linked with being 'British'.…”

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Jaworska

Hunt

2017

Gender and Language

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Intersections and differentiations: a corpus-assisted discourse study of gender representations in the British press before, during and after the London Olympics 2012 1 Introduction Sport is undeniably one of the most pervasive areas of human activity spanning all social strata and widely present across media and education. Apart from being a form of entertainment and physical activity, it is a common cultural and symbolic resource deployed to aid group solidarity and identity formation (Meân and Halone 2010). Given that sport is so omnipresent in everyday life and intersects so many layers of society, it is an appropriate lens through which to study culture and social relations, including gender relations. As Beard (1998: 17) observes, if there are any gender issues in society, these are very likely to be reflected in sport. While some studies show an increase in the amount of coverage of women in sport, and the 'disturbing' and challenging effect this can have on the traditional perception of sport as a male domain (Messner et al. 1993), this has not necessarily led to gender parity, but rather to different ways of constructing sportswomen and sportsmen discursively (Messner et al. 1993) Overt expressions of sexism seem nowadays to be largely absent from sport news and commentators appear to be more aware of gendered language (Duncan et al. 2005), but gendered hierarchies are still maintained, arguably through much subtler patterns of representations, which can be more pernicious than blatant sexism (Duncan 2006). Given that most people experience sporting events through media only, sports media are a powerful tool in disseminating such biases and influencing, directly and indirectly, public attitudes. Because journalists do not just reflect their own views, but also draw heavily on perceptions and ideas that they believe are widely accepted (Cotter 2010), studying representations as constructed through the language of sports media can reveal discourses and biases widely distributed in society. With a few exceptions (Meân 2001; Sznycer 2010; McDowell and Schaffner 2011; Aull and Brown 2013; Caple 2013), linguists have, to date, paid little attention to the role of sport discourse in the construction of gendered identities and biases. It is for these reasons that a number of sports scholars call for greater attention to the discourse of sports media (Kassing et al. 2004). The present study responds to this call in that it aims to examine the impact of a global sports event on the discursive construction of gender representations in media reporting. i Whereas previous research on gender and sport has been mainly concerned with sports events in the North American or Australian context (e.g. Billings and Eastman 2002; Duncan et al. 2005; Bruce et al. 2010), this study investigates British media reporting surrounding the London Olympics in 2012. Also, most studies on sport and gender have focused on the representations of sportswomen and sportsmen during sports events and paid little attention to the impact on gende...

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Using a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) Approach to Investigate Constructions of Identities in Media Reporting Surrounding Mega Sports Events: The Case of the London Olympics 2012

Cited by 14 publications

References 46 publications

The Europe of Brexit: a corpus-assisted discourse study of identities in the press

The Europe of Brexit: a corpus-assisted discourse study of identities in the press

Driving Change on Twitter: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the Twitter Debates on the Saudi Ban on Women Driving

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