Textual Construction of the Female Body: A Critical Discourse Approach by L. Jef

Description: Textual Construction of the Female Body by L. Jeffries This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways womens magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways womens magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image. Notes 1 Original extensive data useful both for applied linguists and sociologists/psychologists2 Topic of young womens sense of themselves in relation to body image highly topical and seen as intrinsically important and worrying3 Extensive use of Critical Discourse Analysis - the dominant methodology in linguistic approaches to discourse, extended to the social science field4 Large-scale study of language in womens magazines offering new data. Author Biography LESLEY JEFFRIES is Principal Lecturer in English Language and Director of the Stylistics Research Centre at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is author of Meaning in English, Discovering Language: The Structure of Modern English, and The Language of Twentieth-Century Poetry. She is the series editor for Palgrave Macmillans series Perspectives on English Language and is the current Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface: Code and Body - an intervention Studying the Language of the Female Body: Some Context Genre, Text-Type and Rhetorical Strategy Naming and Describing Equating, Contrasting, Enumerating and Exemplifying Assuming and Implying The Body in Time and Space Processes and Opinions Conclusions Bibliography Index Review A valuable contribution to the fields of feminist linguistics, gender studies, critical discourse approach, text analysis, and discourse studies in general. - Winnie W. F. Or, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Long Description This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways in which texts from womens magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. By looking at a wide range of texts and studying the language used to describe female forms, Lesley Jeffries provides an insight into the experience of the female reader of such texts, and the likely impact upon her own self-image. Review Quote A valuable contribution to the fields of feminist linguistics, gender studies, critical discourse approach, text analysis, and discourse studies in general. - Winnie W. F. Or, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Description for Bookstore This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways in which texts from womens magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. By looking at a wide range of texts and studying the language used to describe female forms, Lesley Jeffries provides an insight into the experience of the female reader of such texts, and the likely impact upon her own self-image. Details ISBN0333914511 Short Title TEXTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE FE Pages 212 Language English ISBN-10 0333914511 ISBN-13 9780333914519 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2007 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle A Critical Discourse Approach Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 051.082 Birth 1956 Place of Publication Basingstoke DOI 10.1604/9780333914519 AU Release Date 2007-09-18 NZ Release Date 2007-09-18 UK Release Date 2007-09-18 Illustrations XIII, 212 p. Author L. Jeffries Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date 2007-09-18 Alternative 9781349423064 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96926429;

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