Female Linguistic Differences Based on the Addressee’s Gender in Fox News Coverage

Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.5070/l6161045559

E. Suh

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Author(s): Suh, Ethan | Abstract: Journalism outlets provide coverage of Capitol Hill’s endeavors, but the passion and tension within the political atmosphere can elicit subconscious bias in treatment of interviewed parties. This study selects three female anchors’ respective July 12, 2018 Fox News broadcasts and analyzes their gender-isolating tendencies to offer mitigative or assertive language when engaging with male versus female interviewees. The data collected for the three anchors followed a trend of utilizing authoritative forms of language towards women and deferring with reservation towards men. These anchors displayed selective choices in the visibility of expressing dissent with significantly more interruptions of female guests and a greater use of hedges towards male guests. When accounting for the political parties of the interviewees, the anchors offered more deference to Democratic male guests than female Republican guests or female Fox News correspondents. These findings indicated a sociolinguistic difference which could possibly indicate a denial of equal opportunity to female interviewees on news broadcasts.

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福克斯新闻报道中收信人性别的女性语言差异

摘要:新闻媒体对美国国会的努力进行了报道，但政治氛围中的激情和紧张可能会导致对被采访者的潜意识偏见。本研究选取了2018年7月12日福克斯新闻节目的三位女主播，分析了她们在与男性和女性受访者交谈时使用缓和或自信语言的性别隔离倾向。为三位主播收集的数据遵循了一种趋势，即对女性使用权威的语言形式，对男性使用保留的语言形式。这些主播在表达不同意见的可见性上表现出选择性的选择，女性嘉宾的打断明显更多，对男性嘉宾的限制语使用也更多。当考虑到受访者的政党时，主持人对民主党男嘉宾的尊重程度高于共和党女嘉宾或福克斯新闻女记者。这些发现表明了一种社会语言差异，这可能表明女性在新闻广播中没有获得平等的机会。

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