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Within and Beyond Stereotypes of Arab Women: A Corpus-based Approach to Jordanian Women’s Portrayal in English Digital News
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In: Journal of International Women's Studies (2022)
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This study is part of a project on the representations of Jordanian women in Arabic and English digital news, and how these relate to their perceived status in their society and to Arab women’s general image in Western media. We focus on their depictions in related news stories appearing in English during the period 2014-2016 and how they compare to the overall representations of Arab women in news discourse. To this end, we combine discourse analysis approaches and corpus linguistic techniques to analyse a corpus composed of 616 articles (445,904 words) published in English mainly by 10 news websites based in several countries. We processed our data through Sketch Engine to identify the significant lexical items and expressions used by journalists to describe Jordanian women, then we classified these according to the topical frames they reflect. Finally, we related these themes to both the established stereotypes and the recent images associated with Arab women in Western media. Our results show that the most frequent topics linked to Jordanian women are: empowerment and activism, rights, oppression, work, education, family, marriage, religion and traditions. Most of these echo, in various degrees, both the conventional portrayals of Arab women in the mainstream media as oppressed victims of their societies and their emerging as protesters and fighters for their rights. Yet, these themes are addressed in different tones when it comes to Jordanian women such that religion and dress restrictions are deemphasized while rights, education, and participation in public life are highlighted. Still, some topical frames are underscored as being specifically associated with Jordanian women reflecting their particular achievements, especially, in education and working in non-traditional jobs, on the one hand, and their continuous struggle to gain more constitutional rights, on the other. While our findings shed light on sketching Jordanian women in global news, they provide further discursive evidence against the monolithic representation of Arab women in Western media.
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Keyword:
and Sexuality Studies; Arab women’s stereotypes; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; English news websites; Feminist; Gender; Jordanian women; media representation; Women's Studies
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URL: https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2705&context=jiws
https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol23/iss1/35
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Leza, Sungu, and Samba- Digital Humanities and Early Bantu History
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Indigenous Language Revitalization: Success, Sustainability, and the Future of Human Culture
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The representation of Islam and Islamic culture in realist and magical realist contemporary literature: a cultural critique of Western representation of Islam
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The Ainu in documentary films: promiscuous iconography and the absent image
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Current challenges of language policy and planning for international organisations
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Academic texts in motion: a text history study of co-authorship interactions in writing
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Helping EAL academics navigate asymmetrical power relations in co-authorship: research-based materials for ERPP workshops
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Defining ‘Normal’: methodological issues in Aphasia and intelligence research
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Research on emotions in second language acquisition: reflections on its birth and unexpected growth
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The militant historian: the concept of history in the work of Alain Badiou
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The presence of an absence: framing capital in Mercado de futuros (Mercedes Álvarez, 2011), La mano invisible (David Macián, 2016) and Cerca de tu casa (Eduard Cortés, 2016)
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Un voyage lexical et discursif à travers dix scrutins présidentiels
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In: ISSN: 2428-1387 ; Mondes sociaux ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03593640 ; 2022 (2022)
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LEXICAL RESTRICTIONS ON GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN VOICE CONSTRUCTIONS (NORTHERN AMIS) ; Linguistique et typologie
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In: ISSN: 2196-7148 ; STUF - Language Typology and Universals ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483275 ; STUF - Language Typology and Universals , De Gruyter, In press (2022)
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