Angela Wallington Zimmann

Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb

A Textual Search for Rhetorical and Linguistic Gender-Markings in Speech Samples of Three Contemporary Female Orators

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Feminine communication styles have been the subject
of active investigation since Robin Tolmach Lakoff''s
1975 publication of "Language and Woman''s Place."
This volume adds to that body of research, using
both Lakoff''s linguistic markers and the rhetorical
concept of the double-bind, as discussed by Kathleen
Hall Jamieson in "Beyond the Double Bind." The women
selected for this study include Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives; Katharine Jefferts Schori,
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA; and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States of America. Three genre-specific
speech samples from each of the rhetors (the
acceptance speech, the professional speech, and the
interview). The book concludes with a summary of the
findings and an argument for the inclusion of these
orators in the rhetorical canon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9783639163506
• ISBN-10: 3639163508
• Artikelnr.: 26485246

Autorenporträt

Rev. Angela Wallington Zimmann, Ph.D., is an ordained pastor in
the ELCA and teaches writing at Bowling Green State University.
She holds elected office in Lucas County, Ohio, and studies
the rhetoric of women in the public sphere. Angela and the Rev.
Martin Zimmann have two children, Seth and Chelsea,
and serve as foster parents.