Communication Styles of Female Politicians: Theresa May and Nikola Sturgeon

Мухортов, Д.С.; Малявина, Я.С.

Авторы: Мухортов Денис Сергеевич, Малявина Яна Станиславовна
Журнал: Вестник Московского университета. Серия 9: Филология
Номер: 3
Год издания: 2019
Издательство: Изд-во Моск. ун-та
Местоположение издательства: М.
Первая страница: 36
Последняя страница: 53
Аннотация: This article seeks to study political discourses of Theresa May, the current Prime Minister of the UK and leader of the Conservative Party, and Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party. Diﬀerent in age, ethnicity, political views, educational and social backgrounds, the two female British politicians reveal that in order to succeed in the political arena, women are bound to hide their female personality and use more classical, or male, rhetoric. This tendency particularly occurs in Theresa May. The paper revisits the topic of gender-marked discourse, which has long been a matter of argument with international researchers. It abstains from discussing typical, conventional, female discourse markers in May and Sturgeon, like hesitation, use of standard speech, cognitive, social words, and hedges, and highlights male ﬁgures of speech in the rhetoric of the female politicians in question, like rhetorical questions, logical order of arguments, conceptual metaphors of war, sports, and hunting. The example of Theresa May shows that female politicians can switch between male-marked and female-marked discourses in order to achieve certain goals and preserve their current status. It is argued that male political discourse is still a speech norm which politicians, irrespective of their sex, tend to stick to.
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