Gender, Power and Political Speech

Download or read book Gender, Power and Political Speech written by Deborah Cameron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves; it also discusses the way gender - and its relationship to language - was taken up as an issue in media coverage of the campaign.