Representation of the British Suffrage Movement [Paperback]

Focussing onThe 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.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Using linguistic approaches to historical data: examining the suffrage movement with corpus and discourse analysis.
2. Methodology
3. The taint of militancy is not upon them: suffragists, militants and direct action
Introduction
4. Texts within articles: the role of suggestive placement
5. Public figure and private nuisance: Emily Wilding Davison
6. Maenads, hysterical young girls, miserable women and dupes of the suffrage leaders: the suffrage movement in Letters to the Editor
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Index