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Paterson, L.L. and Coffey-Glover, L. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4432-8177,
2018.
Discourses of marriage in same-sex marriage debates in the UK press 2011–2014.
Journal of Language and Sexuality, 7 (2), pp. 175-204.
ISSN 2211-3770
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Abstract
This paper interrogates media representations of same-sex marriage debates in the UK using a combination of corpus linguistics tools and close reading, and drawing on Queer Linguistics. Following related work by Baker (2004), Love and Baker (2015), and Bachmann (2011), we analyse a 1.3 million-word corpus of UK national newspaper texts compiled for the Discourses of Marriage Research Group. Our corpus stretches from September 2011 and the announcement of a government consultation on same-sex marriage, to April 2014 when the first same-sex marriages took place. Using a top-down approach we investigate the discourses drawn upon in same-sex marriage debates (as indexed by keywords and key semantic fields) and uncover the binary social categories used to normalise social structures and hold the same-sex marriage debate in place. We also consider which social actors are (not) given a voice and/or agency and discuss how (same-sex) marriage is constituted.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Language and Sexuality | ||||
| Creators: | Paterson, L.L. and Coffey-Glover, L. | ||||
| Publisher: | John Benjamins | ||||
| Date: | September 2018 | ||||
| Volume: | 7 | ||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||
| ISSN: | 2211-3770 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Arts and Humanities | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 31 Jul 2018 07:59 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2020 10:37 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34198 |
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