TY - JOUR
T1 - The Portable Locker Room
T2 - Language, Space, and Place in Rugby Pre-match Interaction
AU - Wilson, Nick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - This article uses an ethnographically based sociolinguistic approach to analyse ritual interactions that took place in a New Zealand male rugby team, paying particular attention to the way in which space and place are used as part of the construction of team identity. In following the development of spatial practice, the discourses of territoriality in pre-match communication are explored, and it is shown how the team uses spatial and linguistic practice to reconstruct an unfamiliar space as “home,” thus allowing them to create a familiar space through ritual wherever they might be. In analysing the discourses and communicative practices present in the locker room, the construction of hegemonic masculinity is also discussed and it is found that while rugby is still inextricably bound up with hegemonic masculine ideology, these are found to a much lesser degree than elsewhere.
AB - This article uses an ethnographically based sociolinguistic approach to analyse ritual interactions that took place in a New Zealand male rugby team, paying particular attention to the way in which space and place are used as part of the construction of team identity. In following the development of spatial practice, the discourses of territoriality in pre-match communication are explored, and it is shown how the team uses spatial and linguistic practice to reconstruct an unfamiliar space as “home,” thus allowing them to create a familiar space through ritual wherever they might be. In analysing the discourses and communicative practices present in the locker room, the construction of hegemonic masculinity is also discussed and it is found that while rugby is still inextricably bound up with hegemonic masculine ideology, these are found to a much lesser degree than elsewhere.
KW - ethnography
KW - interactional sociolinguistics
KW - masculinities
KW - rugby
KW - spatial practice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052225172&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/2167479517734849
DO - 10.1177/2167479517734849
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052225172
SN - 2167-4795
VL - 6
SP - 547
EP - 569
JO - Communication and Sport
JF - Communication and Sport
IS - 5
ER -