Representation of olympic athletes in a Malaysian online newspaper / Wardah Hajisama

• Main Author: Wardah, Hajisama
• Format: Thesis
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/4022/1/Title_page%2C_abstract%2C_content.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/4022/2/Representation_of_Olympic_Athletes_in_a_Malaysian_Online_Newspaper.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/4022/3/REFERENCES.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/4022/4/APPENDICES.pdf; http://pendeta.um.edu.my/client/default/search/results?qu=Representation+of+olympic+athletes+in+a+Malaysian+online+newspaper&te=; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/4022/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

The purpose of this study is to investigate how genders are represented in selected sports news during the 2008 Olympics. The sports news of the 2008 Olympics from The Star online newspaper were selected as the corpus of the study, focusing on reports of selected female-appropraite sports. These fem...