Georgina Turner
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
Authors
Sara Mills
Isabelle Van der Bom
Laura Coffey-Glover
Laura L. Paterson
Dr LUCY JONES Lucy.Jones@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Abstract
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
Citation
Turner, G., Mills, S., Van der Bom, I., Coffey-Glover, L., Paterson, L. L., & Jones, L. (2018). Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse and Society, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517734422
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 19, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 1, 2017 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Jul 25, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 1, 2017 |
Journal | Discourse & Society |
Print ISSN | 0957-9265 |
Electronic ISSN | 1460-3624 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 2 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517734422 |
Keywords | homophobia; queer linguistics; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; same-sex marriage; equal marriage rights; victimhood; agency; news discourses; UK press |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/962475 |
Publisher URL | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926517734422 |
Contract Date | Jul 25, 2017 |
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