Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

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Hardcover | 15 December 2009 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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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

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List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. x
Analysing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language	p. 1
Gender and Conceptual Metaphors in Political Speeches	p. 7
Metaphor, Politics and Gender: a Case Study from Germany	p. 9
Metaphor, Politics and Gender: a Case Study from Italy	p. 36
Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide in the US Senate	p. 62
Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Women's Political Language in an Italian Context	p. 83
The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland	p. 112
Gender and Conceptual Metaphors in Political Debates	p. 137
Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates	p. 139
Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: a Case Study of Political Language	p. 166
Conceptual Metaphors of Family in Political Debates in the USA	p. 184
Women in Gendered Conceptual Metaphors	p. 207
Gender War and Body Politics: a Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising	p. 209
Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics	p. 235
Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: the Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch and Witch	p. 254
Index	p. 270
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