| Title |
Critical discourse analysis of gender double bind dilemma: female political leaders’ representation in the us and lithuanian mainstream media / |
| Translation of Title |
Lyties stereotipų dilemos kritinio diskurso analizė: politikių reprezentacija JAV ir Lietuvos populiariojoje žiniasklaidoje. |
| Authors |
Lučinskaitė, Dovilė |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
91 |
| Keywords [eng] |
media political discourse, gender double bind dilemma, female politicians, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Metaphor Analysis, recurrent themes, politinis žiniasklaidos diskursas, lyties stereotipų dilema, moterys politikės, kritinė diskurso analizė, kritinė metaforos analizė, pasikartojančios temos |
| Abstract [eng] |
Female leadership is evident all around the globe with women holding power positions such as Prime minister or President. Yet to this day, female politicians face gendered stereotypes. For instance, female politicians are held to a higher standard and face sexist attitudes (Costa 2020). The study aims to analyse how female political leaders are discursively represented in the media (political) discourse, and to what extent gender-double-bind dilemma is ideologically enacted. To achieve the goal set above, the following research objectives were raised: (1) to analyse how are female political leaders discursively represented in the news media, (2) to identify the recurrent themes associated with female leaders, (3) to investigate how the gender-double-bind dilemma (double standards) discursively represented, (4) to overview the role of metaphor in gender-double-bind dilemma representation, (5) to compare the reoccurring similarities and differences the across the data set. 461 references to female politicians in the U.S. media sources and 461 references in the Lithuanian media sources were identified and analysed within the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis. The prevalent themes that were established across the data set are as follows: war, abortion rights, elections, and various visits. Media bias as well as the politician’s active or passive role in politics contributed to the representation of female politicians. Moreover, the framing of the identified themes was metaphorically analysed and has resulted in the following source domains: WAR & THREAT; BODY & MOTION; NATURE & JOURNEY; and PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP & FOOD. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Vilniaus universitetas. |
| Type |
Master thesis |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2024 |
