'Gender, Power and Political Speech: Woman and Language in the 2015 UK General Election'. By Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw

Authors

  • Lei Fan Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Weiwei Fan Huazhong University of Science and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.34973

Keywords:

Different Voice, Televised Debates, Election Coverage, Women in Politics

Abstract

Gender, Power and Political Speech: Woman and Language in the 2015 UK General Election By Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw (2016) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 140pp.

Author Biographies

  • Lei Fan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

    Lei Fan, Lecturer, English Department. Major research interests: English Language teaching and conversation analysis. She has published in home and international journals like International Research in Children's Literature, and Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics. 

  • Weiwei Fan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

    Weiwei Fan, Professor, Ph. D. Supervisor, former Dean of School of Foreign Languages. Major research interests: intercultural communication, foreign language education, and pragmatics.  She has published extensively in home and international journals such asInternational Journal of Intercultural Relations, and Foreign Language Teaching and Research. 

References

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Edelsky, C. and Adams, K. (1990) Creating inequality: breaking the rules in debates. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 9(3): 171–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X9093001

Gilligan, C. (1982) In a Different Voice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Grey, J. (1992) Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. New York: HarperCollins.

Jackson, D. and Thorsen, E. (eds) (2015) UK Election Analysis 2015: Media, Voters and the Campaign. Poole: Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community, Bournemouth University.

Tannen, D. (1990) You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation. New York: Ballantine.

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Published

2018-10-22

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2018)

Section

Reviews-online only

How to Cite

Fan, L., & Fan, W. (2018). ’Gender, Power and Political Speech: Woman and Language in the 2015 UK General Election’. By Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw. Gender and Language, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.34973