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Just because he’s black’ : identity construction and racial humour in a German U-19 football team
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Wolfers, Solvejg, File, Kieran A. and Schnurr, Stephanie (2017) Just because he’s black’ : identity construction and racial humour in a German U-19 football team. Journal of Pragmatics, 112 . pp. 83-96. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2017.02.003 ISSN 0378-2166.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.02.003
Abstract
Despite its status as the global game, football has been noted for having problems with racism, and yet relatively little research has actually looked at this topic from a discourse analytical perspective. This paper addresses this gap by exploring the use of racial humour in a German male under-19 football team. Drawing on audio-recordings of interactions among the players on the sideline and substitutes’ bench during, before and after football matches and training, as well as interviews with players, and team observations, we analyse and critically discuss some of the ways in which team members make humorous comments about specific racial, ethnic or national groups when constructing and expressing team membership and negotiating their own and others’ identities within the team. Findings illustrate that, on the one hand, team members express their appreciation of the cultural diversity within their team in an attempt to maintain or enhance team cohesion, but on the other hand, they often use racial humour to create distinctive subgroups thereby fragmenting the team and assigning and foregrounding racial identities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Racism in sports, Soccer players -- Attitudes -- Germany, Discourse analysis | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Pragmatics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0378-2166 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 112 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 83-96 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.02.003 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 February 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 October 2018 | ||||||||
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