Sylvia Shaw
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sylvia Shaw plays a role.
Articles
2020 Constructing women’s “different voice”: Gendered mediation in the 2015 UK General Election The Mediated Communication of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Politics, Smith, Angela and Michael Higgins (eds.), pp. 144–159 | Article
Since the 1990s, media commentators in the UK and elsewhere have praised women for introducing a “visibly different style of politics”, one symbol of which is the alleged preference of female politicians for a less adversarial and more co-operative style of political speech. Drawing on an… read more
2018 Chapter 5. Off the record: The transcription of parliamentary debates for political discourse analysis Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 105–126 | Chapter
This chapter examines the benefits and drawbacks of using Official Reports, such as the UK House of Commons “Hansard” for political discourse analysis. Previous studies identifying transformations that occur to the oral version of events in the process of constructing Official Reports (e.g.… read more