Date of Award
12-2019
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Psychology, Criminal Justice and Sociology
First Advisor
Dr. Jenell Paris
Abstract
This unobtrusive qualitative research was aimed to explore the linguistic differences in media news archives between male and female athletes in sport. Data was collected unobtrusively through Notre Dame University’s athletic online website where media news archives were gathered from the sports of soccer, basketball, and lacrosse in the 2019 year. Open coding was then achieved with the help of varying verbs and adjectives collected. Upon analysis, four patterns emerged from the open coding process. These themes being latent gendered linguistics, a double standard, overemphasizing qualifications of female athletes, and structural disparities. Results concluded that there continues to be major differences in the ways women are talked about in sport compared to men.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Lengacher, Ellie, "Feminine and Masculine Linguistic Comparison: Investigating Team Sports through Notre Dame University Media News Archives" (2019). Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate. 413.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/honors/413
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Communication Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Linguistics Commons, Sports Studies Commons
