Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
1 Analysing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language......Page 14
Part I: Gender and Conceptual Metaphors in Political Speeches......Page 20
2 Metaphor, Politics and Gender: a Case Study from Germany......Page 22
3 Metaphor, Politics and Gender: a Case Study from Italy......Page 49
4 Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide in the US Senate......Page 75
5 Non una donna in politica, ma una donna politica: Women’s Political Language in an Italian Context......Page 96
6 The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland......Page 125
Part II: Gender and Conceptual Metaphors in Political Debates......Page 150
7 Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates......Page 152
8 Sex Differences in the Usage of Spatial Metaphors: a Case Study of Political Language......Page 179
9 Conceptual Metaphors of Family in Political Debates in the USA......Page 197
Part III: Women in Gendered Conceptual Metaphors......Page 220
10 Gender, War and Body Politics: a Critical Multimodal Analysis of Metaphor in Advertising......Page 222
11 Power as a Conceptual Metaphor of Gender Inequality? Comparing Dutch and Spanish Politics......Page 248
12 Gendered Metaphors of Women in Power: the Case of Hillary Clinton as Madonna, Unruly Woman, Bitch and Witch......Page 267
C......Page 283
E......Page 284
I......Page 285
M......Page 286
P......Page 287
Y......Page 288