Approaches to Discourses of Marriage (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Paterson, Laura L.; Turner, Georgina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? This book presents research from across the globe addressing the often shifting, context-specific ways that we talk about marriage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000960594
• Artikelnr.: 68546353

Autorenporträt

Laura L. Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at The Open University, UK. She is a corpus-based discourse analyst who specialises in analysing the representation of marginalised groups. She has published work on UK poverty, benefits receipt, and marriage, and is editing the Routledge Handbook of Pronouns. Georgina Turner was previously Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Liverpool. Her work is primarily qualitative with a focus on LGBT+ and specifically lesbian representation and its audiences. She has published critical analyses and histories of queer magazines, explorations of Sapphic fandom, and media debates about same-sex marriage. She is now a researcher in the third sector.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction-Power, protests, and politics: the discursive construction of marriage 1. Implicit homophobic argument structure: Equal-marriage discourse in The Moral Maze 2. Marriage for all ('Ehe fuer alle')?! A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the marriage equality debate in Germany 3. 'Waiting for my red envelope': discourses of sameness in the linguistic landscape of a marriage equality demonstration in Taiwan 4. Legal-discursive constructions of genuine cross-border love in Belgian marriage fraud investigations 5. The discourse of divorce in conservative Christian sermons 6. Turning that shawl into a cape: older never married women in their own words - the 'Spinsters', the 'Singletons', and the 'Superheroes' 7. Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. 8. Growing Up Married (2016): representing forced marriage on screen