Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage

Turner, G, Mills, S, Van der Bom, I, Coffey-Glover, L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4432-8177, Paterson, LL and Jones, L, 2018. Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse & Society, 29 (2), pp. 180-197. ISSN 0957-9265

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Abstract

In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles which 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.

Item Type:	Journal article
Alternative Title:	Opposition as victimhood [short title]
Publication Title:	Discourse & Society
Creators:	Turner, G., Mills, S., Van der Bom, I., Coffey-Glover, L., Paterson, L.L. and Jones, L.
Publisher:	Sage
Date:	March 2018
Volume:	29
Number:	2
ISSN:	0957-9265
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/0957926517734422 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Arts and Humanities
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	02 Aug 2018 07:08
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2018 07:08
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34220

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