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A corpus-based study of LGBT-related news discourse in Thailand’s and international English-language newspapers

  • Duangkamon Chuaikun und Raksangob Wijitsopon EMAIL logo
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Abstract

The present study examines how LGBT is represented discursively in the Bangkok Post, a major English-language newspaper in Thailand, using corpus linguistic methods. A corpus of news reports on LGBT-related matters in the Bangkok Post was compiled. Statistically significant collocates of each word that makes up the acronym were extracted and analyzed in comparison with those found from two international newspaper corpora: COCA and SiBol. It was found that collocations that point to “political movement”, “crime” and “HIV” are shared by the three corpora, suggesting the press’s common stance on the newsworthiness of these issues and at the same time its contribution to the construction and circulation of these discourses related to LGBT. However, the Bangkok Post is marked off from the reference corpora by beauty contest discourse and the absence of issues about the disclosure of homosexual identities and LGBT representation in entertainment. This suggests socio-cultural influence in the way LGBT is represented in Thailand’s English-language newspaper.


Corresponding author: Raksangob Wijitsopon, Department of English & Corpus Linguistics for Digital Humanities Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, E-mail:

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Received: 2021-03-02
Accepted: 2021-06-28
Published Online: 2021-07-29
Published in Print: 2023-07-26

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