Textual Construction of the Female Body [electronic resource] : A Critical Discourse Approach /
Jeffries, L.author.
This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Code and Body - an Intervention; 1 Studying the Language of the Female Body: Some Context; 2 Genre, Text Type and Rhetorical Strategy; 3 Naming and Describing; 4 Equating, Contrasting, Enumerating and Exemplifying; 5 Assuming and Implying; 6 The Body in Time and Space; 7 Processes and Opinions; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image.
Discourse analysis.
Sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Discourse Analysis.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.