Politics, gender and conceptual metaphors / edited by Kathleen Ahrens.

Contents List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language / Kathleen 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 in the US Senate / 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.H.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 -- Gender, War and Body Politics: 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.
Abstract "International researchers examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in political language in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore. Drawing on a variety of corpus data to determine to what extent conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differ with, or remain the same as that of men"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009043545
ISBN9780230203457 (hardback)
ISBN0230203450 (hardback)