Abstract
Abstract
Beginning in spring 2009 and continuing annually since, members of Singapore’s LGBT communities have assembled at Hong Lim
Park at an event dubbed Pink Dot. The original goal of the gathering was to help build a more inclusive nation by standing up to
discrimination faced by LGBT Singaporeans. While the early Pink Dot events were all but ignored by the mainstream state-run press, the
change in tone, the increasing number of attendees, and the participation by members of the ruling People’s Action Party and their families
made the gathering impossible to ignore. This paper uses a corpus-based keywords analysis to evaluate the main lexical differences between
the media coverage of Pink Dot by the state-run press and that of the sociopolitical blog The Online Citizen. Two separate
language corpora (State Media and Online Citizen), each containing approximately 111,000 words, were compiled from available coverage of
Pink Dot dating from 2009 to 2018. Using SketchEngine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004, 2014), top keywords and phrases were identified by comparing these corpora to each other. Through a
preliminary exploration of the collocational environments and the concordance lines adjoining these keywords, this paper sheds light on how
language is being deployed in an attempt to sway a debate of great national and regional significance.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Anthropology,Language and Linguistics,Gender Studies
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