This book is the first longitudinal study of the language surrounding rape in the British press. Through a diachronic analysis informed by corpus linguistics and feminist theory, the author examines how rape discourse has shifted, but also how it has remained the same, over the past decade. With its detailed investigation of media representations, the book explores what re-emerging – and sometimes re-packaged – age-old rape myths can tell us about public perceptions of sexual violence. Against the backdrop of twelve years of newspaper coverage of rape, including many high-profile cases, this study also traces the emergence of the #metoo hashtag and the subsequent aggressive backlash against feminism. This book provides a much-needed linguistic analysis which will be of particular interest to scholars and students of feminist studies, language and gender, corpus-based discourse studies, and gendered crime. weiterlesen