Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Analysing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language

   1. Analysing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language

      • Kathleen Ahrens

      Pages 1-5

3. Gender and Conceptual Metaphors in Political Speeches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Metaphor, Politics and Gender: a Case Study from Germany

      • Veronika Koller, Elena Semino

      Pages 9-35

   3. Metaphor, Politics and Gender: a Case Study from Italy

      • Elena Semino, Veronika Koller

      Pages 36-61

   4. Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide in the US Senate

      • Kathleen Ahrens, Sophia Yat Mei Lee

      Pages 62-82

   5. Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Women’s Political Language in an Italian Context

      • Gill Philip

      Pages 83-111

   6. The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland

      • Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio

      Pages 112-136

4. Gender and Conceptual Metaphors in Political Debates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates

      • Jonathan Charteris-Black

      Pages 139-165

   3. Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: a Case Study of Political Language

      • Anatol Stefanowitsch, Juliana Goschler

      Pages 166-183

   4. Conceptual Metaphors of Family in Political Debates in the USA

      • Karen L. Adams

      Pages 184-206

5. Women in Gendered Conceptual Metaphors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Gender, War and Body Politics: a Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising

      • Michelle M. Lazar

      Pages 209-234

   3. Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics

      • Petra Meier, Emanuela Lombardo

      Pages 235-253

   4. Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: the Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch and Witch

      • Elvin T. Lim

      Pages 254-269

6. Back Matter

   Pages 270-275

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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.

• Gender
• Gender & Politics
• Conceptual Metaphors
• Corpus Linguistics
• Language and Linguistics
• General Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Literature and Language
• Linguistics
• gender
• parliament
• Spanish
• women

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 "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

• Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

  Kathleen Ahrens

• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  Kathleen Ahrens

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.

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