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Politics, Gender, and Conceptual Metaphors
Kathleen Ahrens (Editor)
Palgrave-Macmillan Publishers
The past two decades have seen an increase in the number of women serving in high-level political positions in countries throughout the world. The papers in this volume will look at corpus-based data from a wide variety of countries and use contrastive linguistic analyses to determine to what extent the conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differs with, or remains the same as that of men (who have previously served or who are currently serving with them) and what effect this has on women's and men's power in the political arena and in society.
All analyses will rely on a corpus of political speeches, interviews, or conversations that have a clear rationale for its existence as well as clear guidelines involved in its creation. This forthcoming volume brings together well-known political scientists and linguists to create an interdisciplinary compendium that will examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in politics in England, America, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language
Kathleen Ahrens
Part I Speeches
2. Metaphor, Politics and Gender: A Case Study from Germany
Veronika Koller & Elena Semino
3. Metaphor, Politics, and Gender: A Case Study from Italy
Elena Semino & Veronika Koller
4. Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide
Kathleen Ahrens and Sophia Lee
5. Irish Politics, Language and Gender: Constructing the Difference
Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio
6. Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Women Political Language in an Italian Context
Gill Philip
7. Hillary v. Obama '08: The Gendered Politics of Indecision
Elvin Lim
Part II Debates
8. Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates
Jonathan Charteris-Black
9. Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: A Case Study of Political Language
Anatol Stefanowitsch
10. Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA
Karen Adams
Part III Advertisements and Policy Statements
11. Women and the Body Politic: Political Metaphors in Advertising
Michelle Lazar
12. Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality: Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics
Petra Meier & Emanuela Lombardo
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