Renewing vows: a diachronic analysis of as ideograph

Abstract

During the height of same-sex marriage debate, the authors' research identified as an ideograph. This ideograph was defined synchronically by participants with shared concepts of commitment and love. Their data also demonstrated ideological differences in the then-current same-sex marriage debate. The previous paper was limited in that it only considered the synchronic characteristics of . Through a diachronic analysis of , this paper seeks to examine the changes in the definition of marriage subsequent to Obergefell v. Hodges. Using an analysis of qualitative survey data, this paper argues that retains contractual and love characteristics as defining components. References to the same-sex marriage debate largely disappeared, but there remains an ideological difference in new conflicting themes of marriage as a legal construct and marriage as tradition. The change in the definition of demonstrates the importance of diachronic analysis to reveal ideological understandings and synchronic fractures in ideographs at a given time that ultimately influence understanding of the overall ideograph.