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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511650703321

Autore

Gupta Kat

Titolo

Representation of the British suffrage movement / / Kat Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015

ISBN

1-4725-7091-X

1-4742-1983-7

1-4725-7090-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Corpus and discourse

Disciplina

324.6/230941

Soggetti

Corpora (Linguistics)

Linguistics - Methodology

Suffrage - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Linguistic Approaches to Historical Data -- 2. Different Methodologies -- 3. Suffragists, Militants and Direct Action -- 4. The Role of Suggestive Placement -- 5. Public figure and Private Nuisance: Emily Wilding Davison -- 6. The Suffrage Movement in 'Letters To The Editor' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.