Hauwa Sani Mohammed

The project,A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Gender Variations in Selected Television News Reportage will examine 58 news reports in the three selected television channels of British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC), Nigerian Television Authority(NTA) and Channels Television Lagos. Content analysis would be used to determine whether or not there were lingustic gender differences in the themes and rhemes of the reporters and in the type of stories they reported. A survey in the form of personal and structured interviews would be conducted to find out the implications of the linguistic gender variations on the target audience. Halliday's (2004) textual analysis of themes and rhemes would serve as both theoretical and analytical model for the study.