The discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study

Through corpus-based methods, this study examines Ghanaian parliamentary discourses around the lemmas/the lexemes/the nouns gender, men and women and topics/themes that characterise them. The analysis shows that women are discursively constructed as vulnerable and disadvantaged people who need empow...

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Autor principal:	Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Parliamentary representation Discursive construction Gender Men Women Corpus-based approach Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:14939d9fe5294214bd312ed00fb803a92021-12-04T04:34:25ZThe discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study2215-039010.1016/j.amper.2021.100079https://doaj.org/article/14939d9fe5294214bd312ed00fb803a92021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039021000072https://doaj.org/toc/2215-0390Through corpus-based methods, this study examines Ghanaian parliamentary discourses around the lemmas/the lexemes/the nouns gender, men and women and topics/themes that characterise them. The analysis shows that women are discursively constructed as vulnerable and disadvantaged people who need empowerment through small-scale businesses and increased political participation, which reflects a recognition of women's rights and gender equality/equity. Conversely, men are ascribed such masculine features as strength, authority and breadwinning competencies. These represent stratified patterns of gendered Ghanaian practices. While issues of women are constructed from a problem-solution perspective, men are more positively constructed as great. Furthermore, women are more likely than men to talk about women, which suggests that gender-sensitive parliaments may strengthen the position of gender-based interests.Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-KantankahElsevierarticleParliamentary representationDiscursive constructionGenderMenWomenCorpus-based approachPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENAmpersand, Vol 8, Iss , Pp 100079- (2021)
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description	Through corpus-based methods, this study examines Ghanaian parliamentary discourses around the lemmas/the lexemes/the nouns gender, men and women and topics/themes that characterise them. The analysis shows that women are discursively constructed as vulnerable and disadvantaged people who need empowerment through small-scale businesses and increased political participation, which reflects a recognition of women's rights and gender equality/equity. Conversely, men are ascribed such masculine features as strength, authority and breadwinning competencies. These represent stratified patterns of gendered Ghanaian practices. While issues of women are constructed from a problem-solution perspective, men are more positively constructed as great. Furthermore, women are more likely than men to talk about women, which suggests that gender-sensitive parliaments may strengthen the position of gender-based interests.
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title	The discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study
title_short	The discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study
title_full	The discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study
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title_full_unstemmed	The discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study
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The discursive construction of men and women in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse: A corpus-based study

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