Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Transgender Identities in the Press is a PROSE Award-winning book that examines the linguistic cues and patterns used by the print media in their representation of trans people. It explores semantic categories of representation associated with transgender identities and uses Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how the press represents this topic. It highlights efforts to represent this community in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way and areas where there is need for improvement.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & Linguistics For many people, newspapers are a vital source of information on a wide range of topics, including issues related to gender and sexuality. Transgender Identities in the Press is a book that critically examines the linguistic cues and patterns used by the print media in their representation of trans people. Through close analysis of a corpus of articles collected from English-language newspapers from the UK and Canada, Angela Zottola focuses on the semantic categories of representation associated with transgender identities. Exploring a set of key terms, this book examines the semantic prosody and the language choices that each term is invested with, using Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how the way the press represents this topic influences readers and their understanding of the major debates. Using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods, Transgender Identities in the Press casts light on the complex picture of press language during a period of social change and increasing awareness. Highlighting both efforts to represent this community in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way and areas where there is need for improvement, this book illustrates a variety of issues from a critical and social perspective.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350211308