Working Royals, Megxit and Prince Andrew’s disastrous BBC interview
The online media’s representation of the British Monarchy between 2010 and 2020
This research incorporates Corpus Linguistic techniques with the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) to Critical Discourse
Studies (CDS) to analyse the discursive representation of the British Monarchy (BM) through the categorisation of its individual members
within the Now Corpus from 2010–2020. Analysis concentrated on their categorisation around key events over the ten-year period, most notably
the accusations that Prince Andrew had sexual relations with a minor and Prince Harry’s and Meghan Markle’s decision to relinquish their
roles within the Monarchy. Significantly, the Royals were positively represented through the affixation of agency and active form to attach
them to positive actions, for instance, performing work and charity related duties. Negativity was deemphasised via the removal of agency,
passive use and a refocus onto less serious acts which distanced them, particularly the Queen and Prince Andrew, from scandal.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Literature review
- 3.Theory
- 4.Methodology
- 5.Data collection & analysis
- 5.1Quantitative analysis
- 5.2Qualitative analysis
- 6.Results
- 6.1Quantitative analysis
- 6.1.1Kindness and hard work
- 6.1.2Kate Middleton
- 6.1.3Meghan Markle
- 6.1.4Prince Andrew
- 6.2Qualitative analysis
- 6.2.1Active and passive
- 6.2.2Agency
- 7.Discussion
- 8.Conclusion
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