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Publication details [#64840]

Mills, Sara, Lucy Jones, Isabelle van der Bom, Laura Coffey-Glover, Laura L. Paterson and Georgina Turner. 2018. Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse & Society 29 (2) : 180–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | gay | newspaper report | opposition | sex

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper uses a queer linguistics approach to assay data from British newspaper items that debate same-sex marriage introduction. Adversaries to same-sex marriage invoke victimhood in a manner that both empowers and allows implicit homophobia discourses.