Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriageTools Turner, Georgina, Mills, Sara, Van der Bom, Isabelle, Coffey-Glover, Laura, Paterson, Laura L. and Jones, Lucy (2018) Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse & Society, 29 (2). pp. 180-197. ISSN 1460-3624 Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926517734422
AbstractIn 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
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