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Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 192
Feminine communication styles have been the subject
of active investigation since Robin Tolmach Lakoff's
1975 publication of 'Language and Woman's Place.'
This volume adds to that body of research, using
both Lakoff's linguistic markers and the rhetorical
concept of the double-bind, as discussed by Kathleen
Hall Jamieson in 'Beyond the Double Bind.' The women
selected for this study include Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives; Katharine Jefferts Schori,
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA; and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States of America. Three genre-specific
speech samples from each of the rhetors (the
acceptance speech, the professional speech, and the
interview). The book concludes with a summary of the
findings and an argument for the inclusion of these
orators in the rhetorical canon.
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