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Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
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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
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URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926517734422 https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517734422 http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44401/
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Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze
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Text World Theory and stories of self: a cognitive discursive approach to identity
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