Search results for "Pragmática Social y Cognitiva"

Naming practices and negotiation of meaning: A corpus-based analysis of Spanish and English newspaper discourse

2013

Over the last few years, several laws in Western European countries have given homosexual couples different degrees of legal recognition. In the UK, for example, the Civil Partnership Act (2004) recognised same-sex ‘civil unions’, while in Spain the 2005 amendment of the Civil Code granted full marriage rights to gay couples. These legal measures, along with social movements for sexual equality, evince the existence of a new discursive reality where meaning is recursively and strategically negotiated in the light of intervening ideological stances and enacted social roles being constantly redefined. Besides, we analyze the discourse prosody and semantic constellations surrounding naming pra…