Approaches to Discourses of Marriage

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.

Laura L. Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at The Open University, UK. She is a corpus-based discourse analyst who specialises in analysing the representation of marginalised groups. She has published work on UK poverty, benefits receipt, and marriage, and is editing the Routledge Handbook of Pronouns.

Georgina Turner was previously Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Liverpool. Her work is primarily qualitative with a focus on LGBT+ and specifically lesbian representation and its audiences. She has published critical analyses and histories of queer magazines, explorations of Sapphic fandom, and media debates about same-sex marriage. She is now a researcher in the third sector.