Fighting words: a corpus analysis of gender representations in sports reportage
Fighting words: a corpus analysis of gender representations in sports reportage
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战斗词：体育报道中性别表征的语料库分析
作者：
Laura L. Aull;D. Brown
本研究旨在探讨美国体育新闻报道中的性别语言结构，其中涉及两个相关的篮球争吵：2004年的步行者-活塞NBA比赛和2008年的Shock-Sparks WNBA比赛。我们使用了一个结合语料库和定性文本分析，调查从天后立即战斗的覆盖面，并比较该覆盖面更普遍的体育报道。我们的分析揭示了叙事重点的关键差异;例如，NBA的报道最感兴趣的是在孤立事件中的责任分配，而WNBA的报道则关注性别和联盟。这种模式，这是实现语言的显性和隐性的方式，有助于“他者”的妇女和女运动员在日益重要的体育媒体商业综合体。
In this study, we explore linguistic constructions of gender in US sports reportage concerning two related basketball altercations: the Pacers–Pistons NBA fight in 2004 and the Shock–Sparks WNBA fight in 2008. We use a combined corpus and qualitative textual analysis to investigate coverage from the days immediately following the fights and to compare that coverage to sports reportage more generally. Our analysis reveals key differences in narrative focus; for example, that NBA coverage is most interested in blame assignation in the isolated event, while WNBA coverage concerns gender and the league writ large. Such patterns, which are realised linguistically in both explicit and implicit ways, contribute to the ‘othering’ of women and women athletes in the increasingly important sports-media-commercial complex.