What Women Want? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4716
dc.contributor.author	Verheijen Lotte
dc.title	What Women Want? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK Media Constructions of (LGBTQ+) Female Voters
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Sexist media depictions of female politicians have been studied. However, studies regarding portrayals of female voters and their hetero/cisnormative narratives are lacking. Therefore, this study explores UK media constructions of female voters in the context of the 2016 EU Referendum and the 2017 General Election via corpus-assisted CDA. It mainly focuses on the exclusion of LGBTQ+ women as voters via hetero/cisnormative language use. Female voters tend to be depicted in relation to men, or children and a family in general, while mentions of queer women are rare. Moreover, LGBTQ+ rights chiefly feature in political discourse to further a nationalist agenda through homonationalist arguments.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni del Comitato Unico di Garanzia dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-29
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-479-0/what-women-want-a-multimodal-critical-discourse-an/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/007
dc.identifier.issn	2724-4652
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-5713
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-479-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-478-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Brexit
dc.subject	Brexit
dc.subject	CDA
dc.subject	CDA
dc.subject	Corpus Linguistics
dc.subject	Corpus Linguistics
dc.subject	Female Voters
dc.subject	Female Voters
dc.subject	Homonationalism
dc.subject	Homonationalism
dc.subject	LGBTQ+
dc.subject	LGBTQ+
dc.subject	Politics
dc.subject	Politics

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What Women Want? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK Media Constructions of (LGBTQ+) Female Voters

Lotte Verheijen University of Liverpool, UK

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Sexist media depictions of female politicians have been studied. However, studies regarding portrayals of female voters and their hetero/cisnormative narratives are lacking. Therefore, this study explores UK media constructions of female voters in the context of the 2016 EU Referendum and the 2017 General Election via corpus-assisted CDA. It mainly focuses on the exclusion of LGBTQ+ women as voters via hetero/cisnormative language use. Female voters tend to be depicted in relation to men, or children and a family in general, while mentions of queer women are rare. Moreover, LGBTQ+ rights chiefly feature in political discourse to further a nationalist agenda through homonationalist arguments.

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Dec. 29, 2020

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Keywords: Brexit • CDA • Corpus Linguistics • Politics • Female Voters • LGBTQ+ • Homonationalism

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