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Publication details [#49691]

Thurlow, Crispin, Kevin Coe and Whitney Anspach. 2007. The other closet ? : atheists, homosexuals and the lateral appropriation of discursive capital. Critical Discourse Studies 4 (1) : 95–119.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | critical discourse analysis | gay | metaphor | religion

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article uses critical discourse analysis to explore a specific instance of lateral appropriation of discursive capital between atheists and homosexuals, that is atheist movement's remetaphorized deployment of the homosexual 'closet' and the associated notion of 'coming out' .