National open university of nigeria school of arts and social sciences
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| 4.0 Conclusion Research into the discourse of newspaper has shown that the written discourse is also one area well explored by scholars. Written discourses are not ideologically neutral. Newspaper discourse ranges from headlines to news and advertisements have their features that make them to be labeled sometimes as stereotyped discourse against a particular social group. Groups that have been found stereotyped in the media are women, ethnic minorities, people of a particular religious belief, the physically challenged, such as the blind, the deaf, the lame, the uneducated, and so forth. 5.0 Summary This unit examined how the newspaper, just like any other form of discourse is used as a forum for enactment of social power in the society. We examined the different aspects of newspaper where such power imbalances are expressed, such as in advertisement, news reports, editorials, and features. We particularly focused on gender representation in the media to show the way the media portray men and women in newspapers. 6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment Identify and select two newspaper features that you think are biased in their representation of the female gender. Discuss the linguistic features that portray the writings as gender-biased writings. 7.0 References/Further Reading Fairclough, N. (2000) Language and Power. New York Longman. Huckin, TN. (1997) Critical Discourse Analysis In T. Miller (Ed) Functional Approaches to Written Tests. Van Dijk, T. (2000) Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversational Analysis. Discourse and Society 10 (4) Kress, G. (1990) Critical Discourse Analysis Robert Kaplan (Ed) Annual Review of Applied Linguistics II. Taiwo, R (2007) Language, Ideology and Power Relations in Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Nebula 4.1. March, 2007. |