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This study examines the representation of women drivers in British motorsport journalism through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), drawing on Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional model (1992, 1995, 2003) as its primary analytical framework. Grounded in existing CDA and feminist linguistic research on gendered media representation, it analyses a purposively constructed corpus of eight articles published between 2015 and 2023 by two prominent British outlets, BBC Sport and Autosport, with particular attention to linguistic and discursive strategies such as gender marking, transitivity, passivisation, and evaluative lexis. The analysis identifies three recurrent discourse patterns across the corpus: a lexicon of exceptionality that constructs female drivers as historically outlandish rather than standard professional competitors, the deathleticisation of female subjects through transitivity structures that assign them symbolic rather than agentive roles, and the passivisation of female career agency through grammatical constructions. Together, these findings confirm and extend the conclusions of previous CDA research on sports media, demonstrating that British motorsport journalism reproduces hegemonic masculinity not through explicit hostility but through accumulated, naturalised textual practices. It also seeks to address the relative lack of CDA research on written British motorsport coverage, offering a focused linguistic analysis of how women are framed in a specialised and culturally significant media context. |
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