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Turner, G., Mills, S., Van der Bom, I., Coffey-Glover, L. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4432-8177, Paterson, L.L. 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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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