Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates

ISBN: 9780190217969 出版年：2016 页码：225 Tracy, Karen Oxford University Press

This book examines the discourse of judges and attorneys, and legislators and citizens as they debated whether same-sex couples should be permitted to marry. Karen Tracy shows that change in Americans' attitudes occurred concurrently with changes in speakers' language use that went from framing sexual orientation as a "lifestyle" to talking about gays and lesbians as a category of citizen.