SHIFTING GUILT AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE SUN NEWS WEBSITE: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION
SHIFTING GUILT AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE SUN NEWS WEBSITE: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION
Author(s): Yusra QASSIM ALISubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: CDA; gender; responsibility and guilt; The Sun; discrimination
Summary/Abstract: Online news websites are considered as one of the main media sources to stay tuned with recent news and perspectives nowadays. Therefore, the way gender is pictured on such websites contributes directly in the way men and women identify one another and in the way they are defined in the real life and in various societies. The current study, thus, tries to investigate the means by which guilt and responsibility are shifted on women in certain news articles. To do this, a critical discourse analysis study is conducted. Approaches such as Fairclough’s three-dimensional approach and Halliday’s linguistic tools are adopted to analyse and discuss the data. Data is randomly selected from a well-known news website named “The Sun”. One of the main findings of the study is that although this age is considered a revolutionary age with regard to gender issue, news websites still adhere to the old-fashion principle of shifting guilt and responsibility on women, both covertly and overtly.
Journal: LIMBA ȘI LITERATURA – REPERE IDENTITARE ÎN CONTEXT EUROPEAN
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 33
- Page Range: 67-76
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
