Representation of the British Suffrage Movement

<p>Focussing on <i>The Times</i> this monograph uses corpus linguistics to examine how suffrage campaigners' different ideologies were conflated in the newspaper over a crucial time period for the movement - 1908 to 1914 leading up to the Representation of the People Act in 1918. <p/>Looking particularly at representations of suffrage campaigners' support of or opposition to military action Gupta uses a range of methodological approaches drawn from corpus linguistics discourse analysis and CDA. These include: collocation analysis examination of consistent significant collocates and van Leeuwen's taxonomy of social actors. <p/>The book offers an innovative insight into contemporary public understanding of the suffrage campaign with implications for researchers examining large complex protest movements.</p>