A Critical Discourse Analysis of Intersectional Identity Construction in Women's Football

女足跨界身份建构的批判性话语分析

• 批准号: 2598166
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2598166
• 关键词: Critical; Discourse; Analysis; Intersectional; Identity

My PhD thesis will offer the first academic investigation into the role of language in intersectional identityconstruction in professional women's football discourse using Critical Discourse Analysis. Specifically, Iwill address the following questions: What role does language play in creating and maintaining identitiesin women's football media? How does women's football interact with broader cultural issues concerningidentity? How do athletes and journalists use language to position themselves in these discussions?I will conduct four qualitative case studies involving the English and American national teams, and teamsin the highest division English and American leagues: Arsenal and Manchester United in the FA Women'sSuper League and Utah Royals and Portland Thorns in the NWSL. This study will include the constructionof a data set foregrounding the underrepresented perspectives of female footballers via Twitter posts andinterview responses, whilst also featuring sports journalism from British media across the politicalspectrum including The Guardian, MailOnline, and the BBC. The data set will surround and succeed 2019,'a breakthrough year for women's football' (FIFA 2019). As accessibility of discourse is a crucialconsideration in discussions of public identity construction and in the emancipation of marginalisedgroups at the heart of this study, this data set will draw from publicly available online sources (Lazar2008; Fairclough 2014). I will adapt a multidisciplinary approach to analysing this diverse data set,combining key critical discourse analytical approaches (Fairclough 1995, 2003, 2014; Lazar 2008, 2014)with van Leeuwen's (2008) legitimation strategies and Wodak and Koller's (2008) conceptualisations ofthe public sphere

我的博士论文将首次运用批评性话语分析对职业女子足球话语中语言在交叉身份建构中的作用进行学术研究。具体来说，我将解决以下问题：什么样的角色语言发挥创造和维持身份的女子足球媒体？女子足球如何与更广泛的文化问题相互作用？运动员和记者如何使用语言在这些讨论中定位自己？我将进行四个定性的案例研究，涉及英国和美国的国家队，以及英国和美国最高级别联赛中的球队：英足总女子超级联赛中的阿森纳和曼联，NWSL中的犹他州皇家队和波特兰荆棘队。这项研究将包括构建一个数据集，通过Twitter帖子和采访回应突出女性足球运动员代表性不足的观点，同时还包括来自英国媒体的体育新闻，包括卫报，MailOnline和BBC。该数据集将围绕并延续2019年，“女子足球的突破性一年”（FIFA 2019）。由于话语的可及性是公共身份建设讨论和边缘化群体解放的关键考虑因素，因此该数据集将取自公开的在线来源（Lazar 2008; Fairclough 2014）。我将采用多学科的方法来分析这个多样化的数据集，结合关键的批评话语分析方法（Fairclough 1995，2003，2014; Lazar 2008，2014）与货车Leeuwen（2008）的合法化策略以及Wodak和Koller（2008）对公共领域的概念化