Politics, gender, and conceptual metaphors
By: edited by Kathleen Ahrens.
Contributors: Ahrens, Kathleen, 1966-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780230203457
Subjects: Women -- Political activity; Women legislators; Sex role; Political oratory -- Sex differences; Language and languages -- Political aspects; Language and languages -- Sex differences; Metaphor -- Political aspects
Description: "International researchers examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in political language in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore. Drawing 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Tables and Figures * Acknowledgements * Notes on the Contributors * Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language; title: Kathleen Ahrens * PART I: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL SPEECHES * Metaphor, Politics and Gender: A Case Study from Germany; V.Koller&; title: E.Semino * Metaphor, Politics, and Gender: A Case Study from Italy; title: E.Semino&; title: V.Koller * Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide; title: K.Ahrens&; title: S.Lee * Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Womens Political Language in an Italian Context; title: G.Philip * The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland; title: E.H.Tenorio * PART II: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DEBATES * Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates; title: J.Charteris-Black * Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: A Case Study of Political Language; title: A.Stefanowitsch&; title: J.Goschler * Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA; title: K.Adams * PART III: WOMEN IN GENDERED CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS * Women and the Body Politic: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising; title: M.Lazar * Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics; title: P.Meier&; title: E.Lombardo *Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: The Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch, and Witch; title: E.Lim * Index List of Tables and Figures * Acknowledgements * Notes on the Contributors * Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language; title: Kathleen Ahrens * PART I: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL SPEECHES * Metaphor, Politics and Gender: A Case Study from Germany; V.Koller&; title: E.Semino * Metaphor, Politics, and Gender: A Case Study from Italy; title: E.Semino&; title: V.Koller * Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide; title: K.Ahrens&; title: S.Lee * Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Womens Political Language in an Italian Context; title: G.Philip * The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland; title: E.H.Tenorio * PART II: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DEBATES * Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates; title: J.Charteris-Black * Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: A Case Study of Political Language; title: A.Stefanowitsch&; title: J.Goschler * Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA; title: K.Adams * PART III: WOMEN IN GENDERED CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS * Women and the Body Politic: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising; title: M.Lazar * Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics; title: P.Meier&; title: E.Lombardo *Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: The Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch, and Witch; title: E.Lim * Index.