Beschreibung:
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.
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