Newspaper Coverage of Paralympic Athletes: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

This study examines representations of athletes with impairments who competed at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Discourse analysis from a linguistic perspective was employed to investigate gendered descriptions of disabled persons and the emotional expressions of Paralympic athletes,...

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Main Authors: Habibah Ismail, Selina Khoo, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Jadeera Phaik Geok Cheong, Rizal Razman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-06-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221102434