Narrating Gender Violence A Corpus-Based Study on the Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Italian Media

Lucia Busso; Claudia Roberta Combei; Ottavia Tordini

doi:10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/002

Narrating Gender Violence A Corpus-Based Study on the Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Italian Media

Lucia Busso
, Claudia Roberta Combei
, Ottavia Tordini

Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italia
Università di Pisa, Italia

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Using a corpus-based and cross-modal approach, this study explores mediatic linguistic representations of gendered violence. Specifically, we analyse a journalistic corpus (WItNECS, Women in Italian Newspaper Crime Sections) and a multimedia dataset of the Italian TV program Amore Criminale (AC). The corpus is explored via collocational analysis of key terms and topic modelling. AC is investigated with a multimodal analysis of speech and gestures. Finally, we compare similarities and differences of newspaper and television language. Findings from this innovative methodology bring new evidence on the mediatic representation of ‘women as victims’.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Language, Gender and Hate Speech
Subtitle of host publication	A Multidisciplinary Approach
Editors	Giuliana Giusti, Gabriele Iannàccaro
Chapter	2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-88-6969-478-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/002
Publication status	Published - 29 Dec 2020

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Name	Language, Gender and Hate Speech A Multidisciplinary Approach
Publisher	Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
ISSN (Electronic)	2724-4652

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Busso, L., Combei, C. R., & Tordini, O. (2020). Narrating Gender Violence A Corpus-Based Study on the Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Italian Media. In G. Giusti, & G. Iannàccaro (Eds.), Language, Gender and Hate Speech : A Multidisciplinary Approach (Language, Gender and Hate Speech A Multidisciplinary Approach). https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/002

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Language, Gender and Hate Speech : A Multidisciplinary Approach. ed. / Giuliana Giusti; Gabriele Iannàccaro. 2020. (Language, Gender and Hate Speech A Multidisciplinary Approach).

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