Exploring language aggression against women / edited by Patricia Bou-Franch.

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Intro -- Exploring Language Aggression against Women -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- 'Did he really rape these bitches?' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminary reflections on aggression, women and language -- 3. Contextualizing discourse-analytic research on language aggression against women -- 4. Organization of Exploring Language Aggression against Women -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Rape is rape (except when it's not) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recontextualising violence against women -- 3. Mediated stylistics -- 4. Assange and the allegations of [X] -- 5. The concealment of violence -- 6. Rape is rape (except when it's not) -- References -- De-authorizing rape narrators -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology: The book review genre -- 3. Findings and discussion -- 3.1 Positive reviews -- 3.2 Negative reviews -- 3.3 The caveat reviews -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Data for this study come from the following sources -- Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Framework and procedure -- 4. The discourse of VAW -- quantitative analysis -- 5. Patriarchal discourses, gender ideologies and social identities -- qualitative analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The linguistic representation of gender violence in (written) media discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Women, violence and language: The violence(s) against women -- 3. The portrayal of gender violence in the Spanish press -- 3.1 First phase: The 1970s and mid-1980s -- 3.2 Second phase: From the mid-1980s to the end of the 20th century -- 3.3 The 21st century -- 3.4 El País and El Mundo -- 3.5 Research on VAW discourse(s) in the Spanish media.

4. Data and methodology: An evaluation framework -- 4.1 Data -- 4.2 Theoretical framework -- 4.2.1 Means for evaluation: Explicit vs. implicit attitude -- 4.2.2 Types of evaluation: Affect, judgment, and appreciation -- 4.3 Procedure -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1 Mujer(es) maltratada(s) in Spanish newspapers: A general look at evaluation -- 5.1.1 Judgement -- 5.1.2 Affect -- 5.2 Mujer(es) maltratada(s) in selected texts: Evaluation in El País and El Mundo -- 5.2.1 El País -- 5.2.2 El Mundo -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Public/Private language aggression against women -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender and language aggression -- 2.1 Language on the offense -- 2.2 Language on the defense -- 3. Direct and indirect gendered language aggression -- 4. Data and methods -- 5. Findings -- 5.1 Verbal aggression against women in civil protection order petitions -- 5.2 Verbal aggression against women in tweets -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Addressing women in the Greek parliament -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Im/politeness in the context of rival political encounters -- 3. Sexism as face threatening discourse -- 4. Sexist aggression and impoliteness: the analytical framework -- 5. The analysis of the data -- 5.1 Sexist rival discourse: female incompetence -- 5.2 Sexist rival discourse: female sexuality and irrationality -- 5.3 Sexist aggressive responses to conflict -- 5. Discussion: exceeding the limits of the expected -- Transcription symbols -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Contributors to this volume -- Index.

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