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International researchers examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in political language in the UK, USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore. They draw on a variety of corpus data to determine to what extent conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differ with, or remain the same as that of men.

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Author:   Kathleen Ahrens
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2009
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781137586803

ISBN 10:   113758680
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   20 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language; K.Ahrens PART I: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL SPEECHES Metaphor, Politics and Gender: A Case Study from Germany; V.Koller & E.Semino Metaphor, Politics, and Gender: A Case Study from Italy; E.Semino & V.Koller Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide; K.Ahrens & S.Lee Non una Donna in Politica, ma una Donna Politica: Women's Political Language in an Italian Context; G.Philip The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland; E.Hidalgo Tenorio PART II: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DEBATES Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates; J.Charteris-Black Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: A Case Study of Political Language; A.Stefanowitsch & J.Goschler Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA; K.Adams PART III: WOMEN IN GENDERED CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS Women and the Body Politic: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising; M.Lazar Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics; P.Meier & E.Lombardo Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: The Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch, and Witch; E.Lim Index

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The importance of this book can be seen in the way that it brings together a focus on language (and conceptual metaphors in particular) and politics and applies feminist research questions and methodologies in thinking through this relationship. Language is a tool involved in knowledge production and thus political action, thus it should be analyzed cautiously which is precisely what the contributors of this book manage to do. - International Feminist Journal of Politics As a whole, this volume is a welcome contribution to the study of gender and metaphor use, and more generally, to the study of metaphor in discourse. This volume will interest students and researchers with academic backgrounds as diverse as in discourse analysis, gender studies, conceptual metaphor, political communication and media studies. - Discourse and Communication

Author Information

KAREN ADAMS is a Professor of English/Linguistics, Arizona State University, USA JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is a Professor of Linguistics, University of West of England, UK JULIANA GOSCHLER is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany ENCARNACION HIDALGO TENORIO is a senior lecturer in the English Department, University of Granada, Spain VERONIKA KOLLER is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK MICHELLE M. LAZAR is Associate Professor, Department of English Language& Literature, National University of Singapore SOPHIA LEE is a doctoral student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University ELVIN LIM is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, USA EMANUELA LOMBARDO is Ramon y Cajal researcher, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain PETRA MEIER is Assistant Professor, Politics Department, University of Antwerp, Belgium GILL PHILIP is a lecturer in EFL in the Interfaculty Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Bologna University, Italy ANATOL STEFANOWITSCH is Professor of English Linguistics, University of Bremen, Germany ELENA SEMINO is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK

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