Published in The Journal of Media and Performing Arts.
Household chores and Children versus the rest of the
universe: news values and views towards women in The Korea Herald and The
Korea Times, a CDA perspective.
ISSN 1975-8928.
Abstract:
This paper
comparatively analyses the discursive construction of women’s societal roles in
two online Korean English language newspapers. It addresses the question; how
are women represented in English language ‘broadsheet’ online news journals of
record in South Korea; and how do those representations of women maintain the
social conditions which sustain gender inequalities? Linguistic data was gathered from The Korea Herald and the Times of Korea over a two day period
based upon headlines that had a direct reference to ‘women’. A Critical Discourse Analysis approach (CDA)
was used drawing on various theories of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and
cognition. The findings pointed to an
ideological predisposition towards representing women in traditional roles in
line with a socio-cognitive legacy of Confucian values. There was also a notable
confusion in the language which reflects the discord between these Confucian
values and modern globalised values.
Keywords:
cognition, Confucianism, feminism, Critical Discourse Analysis, linguistics,
media, values, ideology
