Kieran File
Biographic Data
| ID | 1017589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kieran File |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kieran |
| FAMILY NAME | File |
| SIGNATURE | FILE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6202-0013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘That’s not a quirk of racism [. . .] – that’s a quirk of geography’
This article examines how place is discursively constructed as an agent in talk about the exclusion of ethnic minority players in Australian grassroots cricket. Drawing on 40 semi-structured interviews with players and other stakeholders, we combine thematic analysis with Critical Discourse Analysis to identify the linguistic strategies used to construct place(s). We show how references to places of different degrees of granularity – from very sp…
Exploring the discursive and multimodal strategies of collective leadership in a professional football team
This article explores the discursive and multimodal strategies through which leadership is accomplished collectively among the coaches of a professional football team. We demonstrate the benefits of using a modified version of Drath and colleagues’ (2008) DAC ontology in sociolinguistic research, and we show what can be gained by conceptualising leadership as a process rather than a set of behaviours or traits associated with an individual in a s…
The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports
Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations. This book explores how language use patterns by athletes, coaches, sports fans, and the sports media can create or impede inclusion. Issues of in/exclusion in a range of sports and a variety of socio-cultural contexts are explored, raising important questions for practitioners about how to address matters of in/exclusion that are evident in everyday language use.
Fan identity and football culture
In this article, we critically assess a common discourse of the football fan as hooligan, with the help of insights generated from a linguistic ethnography of football fan behaviour in one of their natural environmentsthe football stadium during a live match. Football fans have long been stereotypically understood through notions of hooliganism, with violent and aggressive behaviour frequently identified as a marker of this social group. However,…
Exploring the processes of emergent leadership in a netball team
In line with recent developments in leadership research which conceptualise leadership as a discursive and collaborative process rather than a set of static attributes and characteristics displayed by individuals, this paper explores some of the discursive processes through which leadership emerges in a sports team. Drawing on over ten hours of naturally occurring interactions among the players of a women’s netball team in the UK, and applying th…
That match was "a bit like losing your virginity". Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches
You're Manchester United manager, you can't say things like that
Just because he's black
Should Vocabulary Instruction Be Integrated or Isolated
This study compares integrated and isolated form‐focused instruction for vocabulary development in an English as a second language (ESL) reading lesson. Two classes of ESL learners ( N = 20) from a university preparation academic English course were involved in the study. Each class did two reading treatments in which they read an article and studied vocabulary from that article. In one of the treatments participants were taught the words in isol…
The Authors Reply
Just because he's black
Should Vocabulary Instruction Be Integrated or Isolated
This study compares integrated and isolated form‐focused instruction for vocabulary development in an English as a second language (ESL) reading lesson. Two classes of ESL learners ( N = 20) from a university preparation academic English course were involved in the study. Each class did two reading treatments in which they read an article and studied vocabulary from that article. In one of the treatments participants were taught the words in isol…
That match was "a bit like losing your virginity". Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches
You're Manchester United manager, you can't say things like that
Fan identity and football culture
In this article, we critically assess a common discourse of the football fan as hooligan, with the help of insights generated from a linguistic ethnography of football fan behaviour in one of their natural environmentsthe football stadium during a live match. Football fans have long been stereotypically understood through notions of hooliganism, with violent and aggressive behaviour frequently identified as a marker of this social group. However,…
Should Vocabulary Instruction Be Integrated or Isolated
This study compares integrated and isolated form‐focused instruction for vocabulary development in an English as a second language (ESL) reading lesson. Two classes of ESL learners ( N = 20) from a university preparation academic English course were involved in the study. Each class did two reading treatments in which they read an article and studied vocabulary from that article. In one of the treatments participants were taught the words in isol…
The Authors Reply
Just because he's black
You're Manchester United manager, you can't say things like that
That match was "a bit like losing your virginity". Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches
Exploring the processes of emergent leadership in a netball team
In line with recent developments in leadership research which conceptualise leadership as a discursive and collaborative process rather than a set of static attributes and characteristics displayed by individuals, this paper explores some of the discursive processes through which leadership emerges in a sports team. Drawing on over ten hours of naturally occurring interactions among the players of a women’s netball team in the UK, and applying th…
The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports
Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations. This book explores how language use patterns by athletes, coaches, sports fans, and the sports media can create or impede inclusion. Issues of in/exclusion in a range of sports and a variety of socio-cultural contexts are explored, raising important questions for practitioners about how to address matters of in/exclusion that are evident in everyday language use.
Fan identity and football culture
In this article, we critically assess a common discourse of the football fan as hooligan, with the help of insights generated from a linguistic ethnography of football fan behaviour in one of their natural environmentsthe football stadium during a live match. Football fans have long been stereotypically understood through notions of hooliganism, with violent and aggressive behaviour frequently identified as a marker of this social group. However,…
‘That’s not a quirk of racism [. . .] – that’s a quirk of geography’
This article examines how place is discursively constructed as an agent in talk about the exclusion of ethnic minority players in Australian grassroots cricket. Drawing on 40 semi-structured interviews with players and other stakeholders, we combine thematic analysis with Critical Discourse Analysis to identify the linguistic strategies used to construct place(s). We show how references to places of different degrees of granularity – from very sp…
Exploring the discursive and multimodal strategies of collective leadership in a professional football team
This article explores the discursive and multimodal strategies through which leadership is accomplished collectively among the coaches of a professional football team. We demonstrate the benefits of using a modified version of Drath and colleagues’ (2008) DAC ontology in sociolinguistic research, and we show what can be gained by conceptualising leadership as a process rather than a set of behaviours or traits associated with an individual in a s…
Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Football (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works)