Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

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.

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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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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Notes on the Contributors
Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language; K.Ahrens
PART I: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL SPEECHES
Metaphor, Politics and Gender: A Case Study from Germany; V.Koller& *E.Semino

• Metaphor, Politics, and Gender: A Case Study from Italy; E.Semino& V.Koller
  Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide; K.Ahrens& *S.Lee
• Non una Donna in Politica, ma una Donna Politica: Women's Political Language in an Italian Context; *G.Philip
• The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland; *E.Hidalgo Tenorio
• PART II: GENDER AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DEBATES
  Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates; J.Charteris-Black
  Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: A Case Study of Political Language; A.Stefanowitsch& *J.Goschler
• Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA; K.Adams
  PART III: WOMEN IN GENDERED CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS
  Women and the Body Politic: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising; M.Lazar
  Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics; P.Meier& E.Lombardo
  Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: The Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch, and Witch; *E.Lim
• Index