Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from CDA and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage...
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| author | Turner, Georgina Mills, Sara Van der Bom, Isabelle Coffey-Glover, Laura Paterson, Laura L. Jones, Lucy |
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| description | In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from CDA and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represent themselves as victims whose moral values, traditions, and civil liberties are being threatened by the state. Specifically, we argue that victimhood is invoked in a way that both enables and permits discourses of implicit homophobia |
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| spelling | nottingham-444012020-05-04T19:52:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44401/ Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage Turner, Georgina Mills, Sara Van der Bom, Isabelle Coffey-Glover, Laura Paterson, Laura L. Jones, Lucy In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from CDA and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represent themselves as victims whose moral values, traditions, and civil liberties are being threatened by the state. Specifically, we argue that victimhood is invoked in a way that both enables and permits discourses of implicit homophobia SAGE 2018-03 Article PeerReviewed Turner, Georgina, Mills, Sara, Van der Bom, Isabelle, Coffey-Glover, Laura, Paterson, Laura L. and Jones, Lucy (2018) Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse & Society, 29 (2). pp. 180-197. ISSN 1460-3624 homophobia; queer linguistics; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; same-sex marriage; equal marriage rights; victimhood; agency; news discourses; UK press http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926517734422 doi:10.1177/0957926517734422 doi:10.1177/0957926517734422 |
| spellingShingle | homophobia; queer linguistics; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; same-sex marriage; equal marriage rights; victimhood; agency; news discourses; UK press Turner, Georgina Mills, Sara Van der Bom, Isabelle Coffey-Glover, Laura Paterson, Laura L. Jones, Lucy Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage |
| title | Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage |
| title_full | Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage |
| title_fullStr | Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage |
| title_short | Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage |
| title_sort | opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage |
| topic | homophobia; queer linguistics; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; same-sex marriage; equal marriage rights; victimhood; agency; news discourses; UK press |
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