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Abstract
Changes to marriage legislation across the globe have received
much academic and public attention. However, the labels used to categorise
different marital configurations are somewhat under researched. In this paper we
analyse the premodification of marriage in a corpus of UK
newspaper articles (2000–2018) to establish which labels are most commonly used
in reference to same-sex marriage. These are gay marriage, same-sex
marriage, homosexual marriage, and equal marriage.
Drawing on the notion of category construction, we emphasise the fact that these
labels are not neutral synonyms, as each encodes a particular understanding
of same-sex marriage. Some labels even linguistically exclude certain groups,
such as those who are bisexual or transgender. We use the tools of corpus-based
discourse analysis to consider the nuanced differences between the category
labels and consider whether the limitations of the labels are ever directly
challenged.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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