U.S. MILITARY FEMALE MEMBERS MEDIA IMAGE THROUGH THE NATIONAL PRESS

Babushkina Elena Vasilievna

This article focuses on the media image of the US Army female soldiers. Illustrative material relies upon American specialised and non-specialised publications borrowed from Stars & Stripes, Army Times, The New York Times, The USA Today for 2015-2024. This paper touches upon the extra-linguistic aspect of the woke culture as a gender identity factor. The object of our study dwells on the media portrait of military women through the national qualitative press. The subject area focuses on metaphorical representations of a positive female troops image.

Keywords:US Armed Forces, gender, female military personnel, national press, metaphor.