Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

by K. Ahrens (Editor)

Overview

Distinguished researchers from around the world examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in political language in Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore. They draw on a wide variety of corpus data to determine to what extent metaphors used by women in political power differ with, or remain the same as that of men. They also examine what effect metaphor use has on women's power in the political arena. This wide-ranging collection of language-based studies will interest students and researchers in discourse analysis, political communication, gender studies, journalism, and media studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349301270
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathleen Ahrens is Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and Director of the International Writers' Workshop as well as a Fellow in the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities. 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; 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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"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

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 & Communication

From the Publisher