
Published online:
19 May 2016
Published in print:
01 June 2016
Online ISBN:
9780190217983
Print ISBN:
9780190217969
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Stance-Taking and Person-Referencing Stance-Taking and Person-Referencing
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The Three Early Cases The Three Early Cases
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Naming Practices Used in the Courts Naming Practices Used in the Courts
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Naming Practices Prior to These Cases Naming Practices Prior to These Cases
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Summary Summary
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Cite
Tracy, Karen, 'Naming of Litigants', Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates, Oxford Studies in Language and Law (New York , 2016; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 May 2016), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190217969.003.0003, accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
In this chapter’s first section, scholarly work on stance-taking is reviewed and the case is made why person-referencing is an important part of stance-taking during oral argument. Combining discourse analysis with simple quantitative coding, the chapter shows that attorneys’ and judges’ choices of terms for gay parties in the first three marriage cases (i.e., those in New York, New Jersey, and Washington), as well as the frequency of use of these terms, marked the stance of appellate parties toward same-sex marriage. Then the chapter describes how person-referencing of gay persons changed across time and makes the case for what these changes signify.
Subject
Sociolinguistics
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