Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage

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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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Main Authors:	Turner, Georgina, Mills, Sara, Van der Bom, Isabelle, Coffey-Glover, Laura, Paterson, Laura L., Jones, Lucy
Format:	Article
Published:	SAGE 2018
Subjects:	homophobia; queer linguistics; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; same-sex marriage; equal marriage rights; victimhood; agency; news discourses; UK press
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44401/

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