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UNINA9910972768603321 |
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Autore |
Gupta Kat |
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Titolo |
Representation of the British suffrage movement / / Kat Gupta |
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London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 |
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ISBN |
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9781472570918 |
147257091X |
9781474219839 |
1474219837 |
9781472570901 |
1472570901 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Corpora (Linguistics) |
Linguistics - Methodology |
Suffrage - Great Britain - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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