TY - BOOK ID - 11356070 TI - Gender, Power and Political Speech : Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election AU - Cameron, Deborah. AU - Shaw, Sylvia. PY - 2016 SN - 1137587512 1137587520 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Linguistics. KW - Great Britain KW - Applied linguistics. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Pragmatics. KW - Sociology. KW - Sex (Psychology). KW - Gender expression. KW - Gender identity. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Discourse Analysis. KW - British Politics. KW - Applied Linguistics. KW - Politics and government. KW - Women KW - Language and languages KW - Campaign debates KW - Elections KW - Language. KW - Sex differences. KW - Political activity KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex role KW - Psychology, Sexual KW - Sex KW - Sexual behavior, Psychology of KW - Sexual psychology KW - Sensuality KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Pragmalinguistics KW - General semantics KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Linguistic science KW - Science of language KW - Psychological aspects KW - Philosophy KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Debates and debating KW - Political oratory KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Language and sex KW - Sexism in language KW - Sex differences KW - Great Britain-Politics and gover. KW - Great Britain—Politics and government. KW - Great Britain. KW - Grande-Bretagne. KW - Elections, 2015. KW - Élections (2015). KW - 英國. KW - England and Wales. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11356070 AB - Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves; it also discusses the way gender - and its relationship to language - was taken up as an issue in media coverage of the campaign. Deborah Cameron is Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University. She has been an active researcher in the field of language and gender studies since 1985, and her previous publications include The Myth of Mars and Venus(2007), On Language and Sexual Politics (2006) and Feminism and Linguistic Theory (1992). Sylvia Shaw is Senior Lecturer in English Language at Middlesex University, UK. She has examined gender and language in the House of Commons, and conducted ESRC funded research in all the UK’s legislative assemblies. She has published book chapters and journal articles, and is currently preparing a book, Women, Language and Politics. ER -