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Representation of the British suffrage movement /
"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 particul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Halftitle; Series; Title; Contents; Tables; Concordance and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Using Linguistic Approaches to Historical Data: Examining the Suffrage Movement with Corpus and Discourse Analysis; Introduction; 1.1 The women's suffrage movement; 1.2 Corpus linguistics; 1.3 Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Conclusion; 2 Methodology; Introduction; 2.1 Research questions; 2.2 Steps of the analysis; 2.3 Data; 2.4 The Suffrage corpus and the Letters to Editor (LttE) subcorpus; 2.5 Corpus linguistic analysis; 2.6 Critical discourse analysis; Conclusion.
- 3 The Taint of Militancy Is Not upon Them: Suffragists, Militants and Direct ActionIntroduction; 3.1 Frequency of suffrage terms in the Suffrage corpus; 3.2 Classification of strongly associated collocates; 3.3 Direct action; 3.4 Raw frequencies and normalization; 3.5 Discussion; Conclusion; 4 Texts within Articles: The Role of Suggestive Placement; Introduction; 4.1 Organization of texts; 4.2 Classifying the articles; 4.3 June 1908 as the beginnings of WSPU property damage; 4.4 June 1913 as a peak of reporting on suffrage activity; 4.5 Evidence for suggestive placement.
- 4.6 Suggestive placement in June 19084.7 Suggestive placement in June 1913; 4.8 Comparison of suggestive placement in 1908 and 1913; 4.9 Normalized frequencies; 4.10 News in Brief; 4.11 Letters to the Editor; Conclusion; 5 Public Figure and Private Nuisance: Emily Wilding Davison; Introduction; 5.1 Introducing Emily Wilding Davison; 5.2 Discourses of Emily Wilding Davison; 5.3 Suggestive placement; 5.4 Davison the social actor; 5.5 Where do these shifts in Davison's media representation happen?; Conclusion.
- 6 Maenads, Hysterical Young Girls, Miserable Women and Dupes of the Suffrage Leaders: The Suffrage Movement in Letters to the EIntroduction; 6.1 Why are Letters to the Editor interesting?; 6.2 The Letters to the Editor (LttE) corpus; 6.3 Consistent strongly associated collocates; 6.4 Accounting for similarities; 6.5 Accounting for differences; Conclusion; Conclusion; Newspaper focus on direct action; Conflation of suffrage identities; Suggestive placement; Limitations to this study; Implications for future work; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; Notes.