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

我的博士论文将首次使用批判性话语分析对语言在职业女足话语中交叉身份建构中的作用进行学术调查。具体来说，我将讨论以下问题：在女足媒体中，语言在创造和保持身份方面发挥了什么作用？女子足球是如何与更广泛的文化问题相互作用的？运动员和记者在这些讨论中如何使用语言来定位自己？我将进行四个定性案例研究，涉及英国和美国国家队，以及英美最高级别联赛的球队：足协女子超级联赛的阿森纳和曼联，以及NWSL的犹他皇家队和波特兰荆棘队。这项研究将包括构建一个数据集，通过推特帖子和采访回复来突出女性足球运动员未被充分代表的观点，同时还包括来自英国各政治媒体的体育新闻，包括《卫报》、《每日邮报》和BBC。该数据集将围绕2019年并取得成功，这是“女足突破性的一年”（FIFA 2019）。由于话语的可访问性是讨论公共身份构建和边缘化群体解放的关键考虑因素，因此该数据集将从公开的在线资源中提取（Lazar2008; Fairclough 2014）。我将采用多学科方法来分析这一多样化的数据集，将关键的批判性话语分析方法（Fairclough 1995,2003,2014; Lazar 2008,2014）与van Leeuwen（2008）的合法化策略以及Wodak和Koller（2008）的公共领域概念化相结合

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