Politics, gender and conceptual metaphors
By: edited by Kathleen Ahrens
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780230203457
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: List of Tables and Figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on the Contributors; title: Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language / Kathleen Ahrens; title: PART I: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL SPEECHES; title: Metaphor, Politics and Gender: A Case Study from Germany / V.Koller & E.Semino; title: Metaphor, Politics, and Gender: A Case Study from Italy / E.Semino & V.Koller; title: Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide in the US Senate / K.Ahrens& S.Lee; title: Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Women's Political Language in an Italian Context / G.Philip; title: The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland / E.H.Tenorio; title: PART II: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DEBATES; title: Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates / J.Charteris-Black; title: Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: A Case Study of Political Language / A.Stefanowitsch & J.Goschler; title: Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA / K.Adams; title: PART III: WOMEN IN GENDERED CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS; title: Gender, War and Body Politics: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising / M.Lazar; title: Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics / P.Meier & E.Lombardo; title: Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: The Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch, and Witch / E.Lim; title: Index.