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Textual Construction of the Female Body L. Jeffries

Textual Construction of the Female Body By L. Jeffries

Textual Construction of the Female Body by L. Jeffries

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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.

Textual Construction of the Female Body Summary

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

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.

Textual Construction of the Female Body 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 L. Jeffries

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 .

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

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NPB9780333914519
9780333914519
0333914511
Textual Construction of the Female Body: A Critical Discourse Approach by L. Jeffries
L. Jeffries
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2007-09-18
212
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