Discourse, gender, and violence

This book **includes contributions to research in the area of language use and gender-based violence (GBV). It demonstrates how the mechanisms of gendered power in news and social media texts operate linguistically in the study of GBV.

This book includes contributions to research in the area of language use and gender-based violence (GBV). It demonstrates how the mechanisms of gendered power in news and social media texts operate linguistically in the study of GBV. The collection offers both methodological insights from novel empirical studies and careful theorisations of discourse and gender-based violence.

Autorentext

Sergio Maruenda is Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English and German Studies at Universitat de València, Spain. He is also a member of IULMA and the GENTEXT research group. He specializes in the critical analysis of gender-based violence discourses in news media. Laura Mercé is a part-time Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain, and a member of IULMA. She serves as a member of GENTEXT at Universitat de València. Her research is focused on the link between discourse and gender-based violence. Elena Castellano-Ortolà is Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at Universitat de València, Spain. She is also a IULMA and a GENTEXT member. Her main research interest lies in the intersection between gender and translation.

Inhalt

Table of content - Acknowledgements - Discourse, gender, and violence in news and social media texts: Setting the scene - Building a large, annotated corpus of newspaper articles: How to analyse violence against women in the press - The victim, the "wolf pack" and the law: Social actors in Spanish press reports of gang rape - Gendered violence in Polish media reporting on crisis migration: A comparative corpus-assisted discourse study - How DR journalists use News Values when reporting on violence against women: The case of Swedish journalist Kim Wall - The construction of victim accountability in the discourse of female survivors of sexual violence (Insights from online blogging) - Discovered and disclosed: Examining discourses about online grooming by child-victims and their caregivers -Mediatic cases on hate speech: Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp on Twitter - The representation of social actors in male survivors digitally-recounted experiences of sexual violence - Notes on contributors