Men as offenders while women as victims: a corpus-based study of men and women in the United Nations

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1535312/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1535312/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1535312" target="_blank" >10.3389/fcomm.2025.1535312</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Men as offenders while women as victims: a corpus-based study of men and women in the United Nations

Original language description

This study examines the representations of men and women in the United Nations Parallel Corpus-English (UNPC-E) by using the corpus linguistics tool, Sketch Engine. Three types of grammatical collocations were explored, including verbs frequently collocating with MAN and WOMAN when they serve as subjects and objects, and adjectives used as predicates in relation to them. The results reveal that within the UN discourse, men are often portrayed as offenders while women tend to be depicted as victims. This pattern of representations may stem from the UN’s agenda focused on addressing gender-based inequality, as well as from the conventional reporting bias that might have influenced data availability. In general, this study broadens the scope of research in the field of gender and corpus linguistics to some extent, offering a more comprehensive and international perspective on the representations of men and women through the analysis of the UN corpus.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Communication

ISSN

2297-900X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2025-02-19

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

001436479500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-86000452523