How bbc sport frames manchester united: a corpus-assisted discourse study of post-match reports on non-wins in the 2024-2025 season

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Sadidan, Nugroho Zikra (2026) How bbc sport frames manchester united: a corpus-assisted discourse study of post-match reports on non-wins in the 2024-2025 season. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis analyses how the BBC Sport frames Manchester United’s performances through post-match reports on draws and defeats throughout the 2024-2025 season. Which treating match reports that are not merely neutral summaries or match stats, but also as a discourse that repeatedly selects, focuses on, and evaluates certain responsible causes and actors. The corpus is built from 30 BBC Sport post-match reports from 10 August 2024 to 25 May 2025, containing 21,031 tokens, and uses a corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) design, applying frequency lists with maximum dispersion of 2.0, collocation/GraphColl, and KWIC/concordance analyses. The findings reveal three dominant patterns. First, high frequent words appear on the centre of the trajectory of non-wins as crisis across the season. Second, collocation patterns strengthen the role-based accountability, such as amorim, onana, with failure. Third, concordance analysis of six key nodes such as united, season, amorim, onana, defensive and control, which confirmed the evaluative language recurs across multiple matches, which suggest a sustained institutional framing, rather than isolated match criticism. Subsequently these patterns are mapped with Entman’s framing model as it showed strong evidence for defining problems, diagnosing causes, and making moral judgment. However, remedies are rarely mentioned, more as pressure for change, as the narration revolves around the managers' competence and poor losses that are directly blamed on them. The study contributes to the intersections of corpus linguistics, media discourse studies, and sport match journalism research, demonstrating that technically oriented football match reports from a public service broadcaster can function as a framing that legitimates blame, serialises failure, and construct institutional or team accountability collectively.

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Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Creators:	Creators Email NIM Sadidan, Nugroho Zikra sadidann10@gmail.com 03020322059
Contributors:	Contribution Name Email NIDN Thesis advisor Milal, A. Dzo’ul dzoulmilal@uinsby.ac.id 2015056002 Thesis advisor Kurjum, Muhammad mkurjum@gmail.com 2002096902
Subjects:	Sastra
Keywords:	BBC sport; framing; CADS; corpus
Divisions:	Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	Nugroho Zikra Sadidan
Date Deposited:	09 Apr 2026 04:16
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2026 04:16
URI:	http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/89577

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