Gender, politics and the media: a critical discourse analysis of the 2007 french presidencial elections

Abstract

What our research wants to focus on is the representation of women and men politicians in today’s British quality press during the French Presidential elections held this year (2007). In these elections Ms Royal and Mr Sarkozy managed to pass the second round and “fought” face to face for the final victory. The ultimate objective is to see whether there is a certain degree of change with respect to what previous research has shown.