Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

by K. Ahrens (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230203457
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/09/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

KATHLEEN AHRENS is Professor and Head of the Language Centre at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. Currently on leave from National Taiwan University, she has published extensively on issues relating to lexical semantics, language processing, conceptual metaphors, and discourse analysis. Her current research focuses on corpora-based analyses of conceptual metaphor use in political language.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language--Kathleen 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: Womens Political Language in an Italian Context--G.Philip
• The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland--E.H.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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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