Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election: 2016 By Deborah Cameron Hardcover 1137587512 9781137587510 Linguistics Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election: 2016 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 a feminist linguist who holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College Oxford University She is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality. Cameron wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages published in 2007Gender 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 Gender Power and Political Speech Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election 2016

Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election: 2016 By Deborah Cameron

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