A STUDY OF THE LINGUISTIC SEXISM IN DAWN NEWSPAPER

Authors

  • Minnaa Ahmad , Sabeen Qureshi, Khadija Akram

Keywords:

Gender biased, investigating, prevalent, biased attitude, neutral language

Abstract

This study which is titled as the study of the analysis of the linguistic sexism in newspapers has an analysis of the sexist instances present in the newspaper articles. The online platform of  Dawn news “IMAGES” which is dedicated to the news regarding the show business, food, cultures, music and arts was chosen for this purpose. 10 articles from the dates 26, March 2021 to 29, March 2021 were selected from ‘celebrities’ section to apply Sarah Mill’s feminist stylistic model.  The nature of the study was qualitative. The results obtained showed that various degrees of sexist language, not every article had every factor but at the same time there was no such article which was completely void of sexist language. The only absent feature was the generic use of pronouns

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Published

2022-06-20

How to Cite

Minnaa Ahmad , Sabeen Qureshi, Khadija Akram. (2022). A STUDY OF THE LINGUISTIC SEXISM IN DAWN NEWSPAPER. Competitive Social Science Research Journal, 3(2), 99–111. Retrieved from https://cssrjournal.com/index.php/cssrjournal/article/view/211

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): APRIL to JUNE ISSUE 2022

Section

Articles

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