Representation of the British Suffrage Movement

by Kat Gupta, Michaela Mahlberg (Editor), Wolfgang Teubert (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350036666
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/18/2017
Series:	Corpus and Discourse
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kat Gupta is a Researcher at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Using linguistic approaches to historical data: examining the suffrage movement with corpus and discourse analysis.
2. Methodology
3. The taint of militancy is not upon them: suffragists, militants and direct action
Introduction
4. Texts within articles: the role of suggestive placement
5. Public figure and private nuisance: Emily Wilding Davison
6. Maenads, hysterical young girls, miserable women and dupes of the suffrage leaders: the suffrage movement in Letters to the Editor
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Index