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Textual Construction of the Female Body

A Critical Discourse Approach

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  1. Lesley Jeffries
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Studying the Language of the Female Body: Some Context

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 1-25

  3. Genre, Text Type and Rhetorical Strategy

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 26-60

  4. Naming and Describing

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 61-101

  5. Equating, Contrasting, Enumerating and Exemplifying

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 102-128

  6. Assuming and Implying

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 129-151

  7. The Body in Time and Space

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 152-166

  8. Processes and Opinions

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 167-193

  9. Conclusion

    • Lesley Jeffries
    Pages 194-205

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 206-212
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About this book

This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's 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.

Reviews

'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

About the author

Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English and Director of the Stylistics Research Centre at Huddersfield University, UK. She is co-series editor (with Dan Mcintyre) for Palgrave's Perspectives on the English Language , and has published on the style of contemporary poetry and ideology in news reporting and political discourse. She is also co-editor of Babel: The Language Magazine .

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Textual Construction of the Female Body

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Discourse Approach

  • Authors: Lesley Jeffries

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593626

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-91451-9Published: 18 September 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42306-4Published: 01 January 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59362-6Published: 18 September 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 212

  • Topics: Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general

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