The focus of this paper is a corpus study of the representation of rape in the mainstream quality press in the UK and a discussion of the broader social implications of such representation. This paper uses corpus analysis tools to study the discourse that surrounds the terms ‘rape’ and ‘raped’ and their collocates in a corpus of four British quality newspapers and compares the findings of the corpus analysis with corpus-external data (e.g. statistics on rape crimes, government reports, rape myths) to determine whether (and to what extent) the images foregrounded by the press in the corpus echo such contextual information. On the basis of this comparison, I argue that the representation of rape in the corpus reflects and reinforces dominant stereotypical understandings of rape rooted in patriarchal conceptualisations of gender roles and sexualities and perpetuated by established professional practices in mainstream journalism.

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报道强奸：媒体如何决定我们如何理解性暴力

本文的重点是对英国主流优质媒体中强奸的代表性的语料库研究，并讨论这种代表性的更广泛的社会影响。本文使用语料库分析工具研究围绕“强奸”和“被强奸”这两个词的话语及其在四家英国优质报纸语料库中的搭配，并将语料库分析的结果与语料库外部数据（例如强奸统计数据）进行比较。犯罪、政府报告、强奸神话）来确定媒体在语料库中突出显示的图像是否（以及在多大程度上）与此类上下文信息相呼应。在这个比较的基础上，