Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election

by Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137587512
• ISBN13: 9781137587510
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"