Textual Construction of the Female Body A Critical Discourse Approac
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 insi
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Other books by Lesley Jeffries published by Palgrave Macmillan DISCOVERING LANGUAGE: The Structure of Modern English MEANING IN ENGLISH THE LANGUAGE OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY
Textual Construction of the Female Body A Critical Discourse Approach Lesley Jeffries
© Lesley Jeffries 2007
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Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Preface: Code and Body – an Intervention
x
1 Studying the Language of the Female Body: Some Context Theories and practices Feminism, theory and the body A woman’s life – the data
1 1 17 23
2 Genre, Text Type and Rhetorical Strategy Genre and text types Blurring of categories Rhetorical strategies
26 29 46 48
3 Naming and Describing Naming and describing Constructing the reader Describing
61 63 66 78
4 Equating, Contrasting, Enumerating and Exemplifying Textual construction of sense relations Equating Contrasting Enumerating and exemplifying
102 102 106 109 120
5 Assuming and Implying Presupposition and implicature Constructing the reader Perfection and attraction
129 129 132 139
6 The Body in Time and Space Constructing time and space in texts Real, hypothetical, contracted and circular time Body as outer/inner space: literal and metaphorical treatments
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