Representation of the British Suffrage Movement (Corpus and Discourse) [Paperback] Gupta, Kat; Mahlberg, Michaela and Teubert, Wolfgang

Gupta, Kat

ISBN 10: 1350036668 / ISBN 13: 9781350036666

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Representation of the British Suffrage Movement (Corpus and Discourse) [Paperback] Gupta, Kat; Mahlberg, Michaela and Teubert, Wolfgang
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350036668
• ISBN 13: 9781350036666
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 18 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • European History

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Synopsis

Focussing on The Times, this monograph uses corpus linguistics to examine how suffrage campaigners' different ideologies were conflated in the newspaper over a crucial time period for the movement - 1908 to 1914, leading up to the Representation of the People Act in 1918.

Looking particularly at representations of suffrage campaigners' support of or opposition to military action, Gupta uses a range of methodological approaches drawn from corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and CDA. These include: collocation analysis, examination of consistent significant collocates and van Leeuwen's taxonomy of social actors.

The book offers an innovative insight into contemporary public understanding of the suffrage campaign with implications for researchers examining large, complex protest movements.

About the Authors

Kat Gupta is an independent researcher based in Winchester, UK

Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.