This chapter presents the results of an analysis focused on the social representations of LGBT people in six European countries (Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, and UK), belonging to Eastern, Southern and Western Europe and with different degrees of emancipation, both legal and social, towards LGBT people. Synchronic and diachronic automatic text analyses were carried out on newspaper articles published over a period of fifteen years in order to identify the semantic structures organizing the symbolic universes impregnated with the social representations of LGBT. The results reveal similarities but also important as well as differences in the semantic structures identified, but a general trend towards accepting the “other”, portrayed as the LGBT person, can be noticed across countries.
LGBT
Rochira, Alessia;
2020-01-01
Abstract
This chapter presents the results of an analysis focused on the social representations of LGBT people in six European countries (Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, and UK), belonging to Eastern, Southern and Western Europe and with different degrees of emancipation, both legal and social, towards LGBT people. Synchronic and diachronic automatic text analyses were carried out on newspaper articles published over a period of fifteen years in order to identify the semantic structures organizing the symbolic universes impregnated with the social representations of LGBT. The results reveal similarities but also important as well as differences in the semantic structures identified, but a general trend towards accepting the “other”, portrayed as the LGBT person, can be noticed across countries.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
