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Corpus Linguistics in Language and Sexuality Studies: Developments and ProspectsEdited by Heiko Motschenbacher
[Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:2] 2018
► pp. 237–262
Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher
[Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:2] 2018
► pp. 237–262
Transgender identity labels in the British press
A corpus-based discourse analysis
This contribution focuses on the linguistic representation of transgender people in the British press, through the analysis of a corpus of newspaper articles collected between 2013 and 2015. Within the framework of Queer Linguistics and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis, this study analyses the linguistic choices retraceable in the corpus under investigation, conveying a given representation of transgender individuals as social subjects. The analysis focuses on naming strategies and the collective representation of transgender identities.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical framework
- 2.1Queer linguistics: (Non-)heteronormativity in the press
- 2.2Trans identities and language
- 2.3Corpus-based discourse analysis: Combining approaches
- 3.Methodological tools
- 3.1The TransCor: Corpus description and collection
- 3.2Corpus tools: Frequencies, concordances, and collocations
- 3.3Semantic prosody
- 4.The British press on transgender people
- 4.1Combining frequency and concordance analysis: Naming strategies
- 4.2Collocation analysis: Trans people and other groups
- 5.Conclusion
- Notes
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