Discourse, identity, and social change in the marriage equality debates /
This text examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering wheth...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in language and law.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This text examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book makes visible how the court and legislative talk constructed (1) the identities of speakers, (2) the identities of the spoken-to parties, and (3) the identities of the spoken-about parties. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190217983 0190217987 9780190217976 0190217979 |