"Why strengthen the city wall when the enemy has poisoned the well?" An assay of anti-homosexual discourse in New Zealand.
Proposed changes to New Zealand law on homosexuality made the issues a matter of widespread public debate in the mid-1980s. The present study, which was designed as an exploratory assay of anti-homosexual discourse, draws on a large body of public submissions to the New Zealand Government Select Committee on Homosexual Law Reform of 1985. The data are subjected to discourse analysis, and a series of themes or patterns carried in the public submissions are described. To conclude, a limited attempt to test the relevance of the findings to other contexts is made by presenting an analysis of an example of a politician's radio interview from 1993.
Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D006304:Health Status; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D013060:Speech