Gender and Discourse

Language and Power in Politics, the Church and Organisations

Clare Walsh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781317875710
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Real Language Series General Editors:Jennifer Coates, Jenny Cheshire, Euan Reid

This is a sociolinguistics series about the relationships between language, society and social change. Books in the series draw on natural language data from a wide range of social contexts. The series takes a critical approach to the subject, challenging current orthodoxies, and dealing with familiar topics in new ways.

Gender and Discourse offers a critical new approach to the study of language and gender studies. Women moving into the public domains of power traditionally monopolised by men are creating new identities for themselves, and the language that is used by them and about them offers an insight into gender roles. Clare Walsh reviews the current dominance/difference debates, and proposes a new analytical framework which combines the insights of critical discourse and feminist perspectives on discourse to provide a new perspective on the role of women in public life. A superbly accessible book designed for students and researchers in the field, the book features: - topical case studies from the arenas of politics, religion and activism- a new analytical framework, also summarised in chart form so the reader can apply their own critical analyses of texts. - written and visual text types for the reader's own linguistic and semiotic analysis. 'This important book takes up a neglected question in the study of language and gender - what difference women make to the discourse of historically male-dominated institutions - and brings to bear on it both the insights of feminist scholarship and evidence from women's own testimony. Clare Walsh's analysis of the dilemmas women face is both subtle and incisive, taking us beyond popular 'Mars and Venus' stereotypes and posing some hard questions for fashionable theories of language, identity and performance.

REAL LANGUAGE SERIES

General Editors:

JENNIFER COATES, University of Surrey, Roehampton

JENNY CHESHIRE, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and

EUAN REID, Institute of Education, University of London

Titles published in the series:

Norman Fairclough (Editor) Critical Language Awareness

James Milroy and Lesley Milroy (Editors) Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles

Mark Sebba London Jamaican: Language Systems in Interaction

Janet Holmes Women, Men and Politeness

Ben Rampton Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents

Brian V. Street Social literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education

Srikant Sarangi and Stefaan Siembrouck Language, Bureaucracy and Social Control

Ruth Wodak Disorders of Discourse

Victoria L. Bergvall, Janet M. Bing and Alice F. Freed (Editors) Rethinking language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice

Anne Pauwels Women Changing Language

Monica Heller Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography

Alison Sealey Childly Language: Children, Language and the Social World

Gender and discourse: language and power in politics, the Church and organisations

Clare Walsh

First published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2013 by Routledge

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ISBN 978-0-582-41892-9 (pbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315838052

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Library of Congress Catalogmg-in-Publication Data

Walsh, Clare.

Civilizing discourse : women in politics, the Church, and the environmental movement

/ Clare Walsh.

p. cm. — (Real language series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-582-41892-5

1. Feminism. 2. Women in politics—Great Britain. 3. Women and religion.

4. Ecofeminism. 5. Persuasion (Rhetoric) I. Title. II. Series.

HQ1176.W35 2001

305.42—dc21

2001029980

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Contents

• Transcription Conventions
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Aims and General Theoretical Issues
  • 1.1 The concept of ‘communities of practice’
  • 1.2 Negotiating masculinist discursive norms
  • 1.3 Theorizing gender
  • 1.4 Theorizing masculinist hegemony
  • 1.5 The discursive restructuring of institutional and societal orders of discourse
  • 1.6 Structure of the book
• 2 Towards a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis
  • 2.1 Discourse, power and discursive change
  • 2.2 The role of the analyst
  • 2.3 Gender and reader positioning
  • 2.4 Gender and genre
  • 2.5 The interface between text and co(n)text(s)
  • 2.6 The micro-level of feminist critical text analysis: an integrational approach
  • 2.7 Macro-level analysis: the relationship between text and social context
  • 2.8 Methodology used for data collection and analysis
  • 2.9 Conclusions
• 3 Women in the House. A Case Study of Women Labour MPs at Westminster
  • 3.1 Masculinism in the institutional discourse of British parliamentary politics
  • 3.2 Breaking through the glass ceiling: the Thatcher legacy
  • 3.3 Masculinism in the institutional discourse of the Parliamentary Labour Party
  • 3.4 Feminist challenges to masculinism in the Parliamentary Labour Party
  • 3.5 Masculinism in mediatized political discourse
  • 3.6 Gender and rhetorical style
  • 3.7 Encountering the glass ceiling: a case study of Margaret Beckett’s bid for the Labour leadership in 1994
  • 3.8 Media coverage of the 1997 general election: the emergence of ‘Blair’s babes’
  • 3.9 Post-election feminist gains
  • 3.10 Post-el...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Transcription Conventions
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Aims and General Theoretical Issues
• 2 Towards a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis
• 3 Women in the House. A Case Study of Women Labour MPs at Westminster
• 4 Devolving Power, Dissolving Gender Inequalities? A Case Study of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition
• 5 Consuming Politics. A Case Study of the Women’s Environmental Network
• 6 Speaking in Different Tongues? A Case Study of Women Priests in the Church of England
• 7 Conclusions and Overview
• Bibliography
• Name index
• General index