Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

Download or read book Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors written by K. Ahrens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.