27.4476, Books: Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates: Tracy

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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:55:22
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates: Tracy

Title: Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality
Debates 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Language and Law  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: https://goo.gl/oYRRfx 

Author: Karen Tracy

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190217969 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 74.00

Abstract:

Karen Tracy 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's analysis spans ten years,
beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and
ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses
on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these
law-making and law-interpreting discourses. Focal materials are the eight
cases about same-sex marriage and civil unions that were argued in state
supreme courts between 2005 and 2009, and six of a larger number of hearings
that occurred in state judicial committees considering bills regarding who
should be able to marry. Tracy concludes with analysis of the 2011 Senate
Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, comparing it to the initial 1996 hearing
and to the 2013 Supreme Court oral argument about it. The book shows that
social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation
as a "lifestyle" was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as
a legitimate category of citizen.

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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