Representation of the British Suffrage Movement

Product Description 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. Review This volume is an exemplary study showcasing how a triangulation of corpus linguistic methods with discourse analytical theories and techniques can offer systematic insights into the public discourse of a protest movement, contributing to a better understanding of histoire des mentalités and social history in general. Written in an accessible way, this volume is an excellent model of analytical and methodological interdisciplinarity, and an inspiration for students, researchers and scholars interested in studying discourse in its social and historical dimensions.Discourse & Society Book Description Examines how suffrage campaigners' differing ideologies were conflated in The Times between 1908-1914 using a range of corpus linguistic methodological approaches About the Author Michaela Mahlberg is Chair in Corpus Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham, UK.Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham.