Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity

Chapter 1 Introduction: social meaning and language in Club Fingal

1.1. Identity and language

1.1.1. Overview of identity and language in Dublin

1.2. Broad overview of Dublin 15 and Gaelic games

1.2.1. Dublin 15

1.2.2. Gaelic games

1.3. Overview of research aims, methods and results

1.4. Organization of the book

Chapter 2 The ethnographic study of normative masculinity in a sports club

2.1. Gender, masculinity and sports in sociolinguistic research

2.1.1. Identity and sociolinguistics

2.1.2. Gender and masculinity

2.2. Ethnographic data collection decisions

2.2.1. Analytical framework

2.2.1.1. Quantitative Analysis

2.2.1.2. Qualitative Analysis

2.3. Ethnographic profile of Club Fingal

2.3.1. Club Fingal in context

2.3.2. The social aspects of involvement in Club Fingal

2.4. Communication in Club Fingal

2.4.1. Perceptions of Language in Club Fingal

2.4.2. Overview of salient interactional identities and types of talk

2.4.3. Sociolinguistic profile of the types of talk

2.4.4. Observations of humour

2.4.4.1. Direct, straight talk

2.4.4.2. Witticisms

2.4.4.3. Threads of humour

2.5. Preliminary summary of the social space and language of Club Fingal

Chapter 3 Sociophonetic analysis of PRICE

3.1. Analysis of PRICE

3.1.1. Analysis of significant predictors

3.1.2. Intraspeaker variation and type of talk

3.1.3. Overall variation of PRICE tokens and type of talk

3.1.4. Salient patterns that emerged from statistical analysis of PRICE tokens

3.2. The discourse functions of lower and retracted PRICE offsets

3.2.1. Inferring a position of knowledge or authority

3.2.2. Quoting other authoritative positions

3.2.3. Asserting authority in a conversation

3.2.4. Other phonetic considerations

3.2.5. Following consonant

3.2.6. Sociolinguistics interpretations of salient patterns

3.3. Summary: PRICE and epistemic status

Chapter 4 Sociophonetic analysis of word-final /t/

4.1. Analysis of word-final /t/

4.1.1. Statistical Analysis

4.1.2. Salient patterns of variation in word-final /t/

4.1.3. Individual slit-t variation

4.2. The discourse functions of the word-final slit-t variant

4.2.1. Slit-t indicates speaker will adopt a sociopragmatic position

4.2.2. Slit-t introduces a point of sociopragmatic weight

4.2.3. Slit-t 'does' sociopragmatic work, with a pause

4.2.4 To emphasize a point

4.3 Pragmatic Markers and sociophonetic variation

4.3.1. Other considerations regarding variation in word-final /t/

4.4. Summary: frication and emphasizing their contribution of the speaker

Chapter 5 Humour in Club Fingal

5.1. Collegial humour and solidarity in Club Fingal

5.1.1. Ice bucket challenge

5.1.2. "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 humour

5.2. 'Edgy' humour in Club Fingal

5.2.1. "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 Fingal

5.4. Summary of humour in Club Fingal

Chapter 6 Conclusion: Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity

6.1. Results of the Club Fingal ethnography

6.2. Implications and outlook

6.2.1. Implications for the study of Dublin and Irish English

6.2.2. Male identities and the sociolinguistics of sport

6.2.3. Social meaning and indexicality

6.2.3.1. A critique of ethnographically informed, qualitatively-skewed mixed methods

6.2.4. Reflexivity in ethnography