Abstract
This paper analyses how gender has been represented in modern media texts using the corpus linguisticsperspective. Media is an influential institution which reflects and constructs the culture ideologies and itsapproach to gender is an essential point of interest. This paper uses frequency, keyword, collocation andconcordance analysis of a self-compiled corpus of Pakistani English-language newspapers (Dawn, The NewsInternational, Daily Times) to investigate both lexical and semantic patterns related to male and femalerepresentation. By using the interpretive lens of feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) the researchinvestigates the ways, in which linguistic decisions either support or oppose gender stereotypes in the populationdiscourse. The results show that there is a major bias in the ratio of references to men and women, as men arefrequently attributed with power, leadership, and rationality, whereas women are referred to domesticity, beautyand victimhood. Gendered patterns of assessment characterizing the nature of collocational networks normalizepatriarchal values. The analysis practices corpus-based approaches with discourse-oriented interpretation thatenables the research to give a comprehensive overview of gender identities construction across Pakistani mediatexts. The analysis makes a contribution to corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS), and points to the ongoingnature of linguistic sexism in mass media, as well as to the need to have more equalized practices inrepresentation.