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. Now in paperback, 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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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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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
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