Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The stratification of occupations; 3. The representation of gendered nouns; 4. Conclusions and discussion; References.

Summary

This Element explores the portrayal of social actors in Czechia's newspapers and magazines over thirty years, revealing predominantly white male-oriented news. It highlights linguistic othering and stratification as potential threats to equality and the need for careful interpretation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Foreword

This Element provides a transparent, intersectional approach to sentiment analysis, evaluating media frequency and analysis methods.

Product details

• Authors: Irene Elmerot, Irene (Stockholms Universitet) Elmerot
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009014212
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0901421-2
• No. of pages: 100
• Series: Elements in Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Gender studies, gender groups, Social classes, Czechia, News media and journalism, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Computational and corpus linguistics, Social groups, communities and identities, Diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace, Relating to specific socioeconomic groups / status