Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity

Fergus O’Dwyer is a lecturer at the Marino Institute of Education (an associated college of Trinity College Dublin), with previous posts in Germany, Ireland, and Japan.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: social meaning and language in Club Fingal1.1. Identity and language1.1.1. Overview of identity and language in Dublin1.2. Broad overview of Dublin 15 and Gaelic games1.2.1. Dublin 151.2.2. Gaelic games1.3. Overview of research aims, methods and results1.4. Organization of the bookChapter 2 The ethnographic study of normative masculinity in a sports club2.1. Gender, masculinity and sports in sociolinguistic research2.1.1. Identity and sociolinguistics2.1.2. Gender and masculinity2.2. Ethnographic data collection decisions2.2.1. Analytical framework2.2.1.1. Quantitative Analysis2.2.1.2. Qualitative Analysis2.3. Ethnographic profile of Club Fingal2.3.1. Club Fingal in context2.3.2. The social aspects of involvement in Club Fingal2.4. Communication in Club Fingal2.4.1. Perceptions of Language in Club Fingal2.4.2. Overview of salient interactional identities and types of talk2.4.3. Sociolinguistic profile of the types of talk2.4.4. Observations of humour2.4.4.1. Direct, straight talk2.4.4.2. Witticisms2.4.4.3. Threads of humour2.5. Preliminary summary of the social space and language of Club FingalChapter 3 Sociophonetic analysis of PRICE3.1. Analysis of PRICE3.1.1. Analysis of significant predictors3.1.2. Intraspeaker variation and type of talk3.1.3. Overall variation of PRICE tokens and type of talk3.1.4. Salient patterns that emerged from statistical analysis of PRICE tokens3.2. The discourse functions of lower and retracted PRICE offsets3.2.1. Inferring a position of knowledge or authority3.2.2. Quoting other authoritative positions3.2.3. Asserting authority in a conversation3.2.4. Other phonetic considerations3.2.5. Following consonant3.2.6. Sociolinguistics interpretations of salient patterns3.3. Summary: PRICE and epistemic statusChapter 4 Sociophonetic analysis of word-final /t/4.1. Analysis of word-final /t/4.1.1. Statistical Analysis4.1.2. Salient patterns of variation in word-final /t/4.1.3. Individual slit-t variation4.2. The discourse functions of the word-final slit-t variant4.2.1. Slit-t indicates speaker will adopt a sociopragmatic position4.2.2. Slit-t introduces a point of sociopragmatic weight4.2.3. Slit-t 'does' sociopragmatic work, with a pause4.2.4 To emphasize a point4.3 Pragmatic Markers and sociophonetic variation4.3.1. Other considerations regarding variation in word-final /t/4.4. Summary: frication and emphasizing their contribution of the speakerChapter 5 Humour in Club Fingal5.1. Collegial humour and solidarity in Club Fingal5.1.1. Ice bucket challenge5.1.2. "Ye turned up!"5.1.3. "I'll take the two of youse on in a snowball fight!"5.1.4. Solidarity-building and boundary-maintaining humour5.2. 'Edgy' humour in Club Fingal5.2.1. "I think you really are fucken mad Fergus"5.2.2 "I am a manager now"5.2.3. "I could have hit that over the bar with one hand!"5.2.4. "I know more about football than you!"5.2.5. "Go bake a fucken cake"5.2.6. It was definitely a fucken handball!5.3. Multifunctionality of humour in Club Fingal5.4. Summary of humour in Club FingalChapter 6 Conclusion: Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity6.1. Results of the Club Fingal ethnography6.2. Implications and outlook6.2.1. Implications for the study of Dublin and Irish English6.2.2. Male identities and the sociolinguistics of sport6.2.3. Social meaning and indexicality6.2.3.1. A critique of ethnographically informed, qualitatively-skewed mixed methods6.2.4. Reflexivity in ethnography

"[This book] is a compelling analysis that I expect will hold a great deal of interest both to those whose focus is the connection between sociophonetics and pragmatics and to those whose interest lies in gender, masculinities, and normativity.” - Holly Cashman, University of New Hampshire, USA, Journal of Sociolinguistics