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Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Kathleen Ahrens

    1. Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
      National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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  • First work to focus on men and women's use of metaphor in politics
  • Eleven papers by leading academics in the field of metaphor and politics
  • Covers data from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Singapore, the Netherlands and Spain
  • Corpusbased approach to the study of metaphors

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 270-275
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About this book

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 "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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

    Kathleen Ahrens

  • National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Kathleen Ahrens

About the editor

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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