Ahrens K. (ed.) Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 — 275 p. — ISBN10: 0230203450; ISBN13: 978-0230203457.The past two decades have seen an increase in the number of women serving in high-level political positions in countries throughout the world. The papers in this volume will look at corpus-based data from a wide variety of countries and use contrastive linguistic analyses to determine to what extent the conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differs with, or remains the same as that of men (who have previously served or who are currently serving with them) and what effect this has on women's and men's power in the political arena and in society. All analyses rely on a corpus of political speeches, interviews, or conversations that have a clear rationale for its existence as well as clear guidelines involved in its creation. This volume brings together well-known political scientists and linguists to create an interdisciplinary compendium that will examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in politics in England, America, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore.Introduction: Analyzing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language (Kathleen Ahrens)SpeechesMetaphor, Politics and Gender: A Case Study from Germany (Veronika Koller & Elena Semino)
Metaphor, Politics, and Gender: A Case Study from Italy (Elena Semino & Veronika Koller)
Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide (Kathleen Ahrens and Sophia Lee)
Irish Politics, Language and Gender: Constructing the Difference (Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio)
Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Women Political Language in an Italian Context (Gill Philip)
Hillary v. Obama '08: The Gendered Politics of Indecision (Elvin Lim)DebatesMetaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates (Jonathan Charteris-Black)
Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: A Case Study of Political Language (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA (Karen Adams)Advertisements and Policy StatementsWomen and the Body Politic: Political Metaphors in Advertising (Michelle Lazar)
Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality: Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics (Petra Meier & Emanuela Lombardo)