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

ISBN-13: 9783639163506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str.

Angela Wallington Zimmann

Opis

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.

O autorze

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.