I've got a daughter now man it's clean man

Heteroglossic and intersectional constructions of fatherhood in the spontaneous talk of a group of young southeast London men

Bibliographic Data

ID2890331
AuthorsPia Pichler (0000-0002-7090-4799, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume52
Issue1
Pages51-78
Publication date2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404521000646
OpenAlexW3167765084
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited43

This article provides an insight into the heteroglossic and intersectional construction of fatherhood in the self-recorded, spontaneous talk of a group of young men from ethnically and racially mixed working-class backgrounds in southeast London. By adopting an interactional sociolinguistic approach, informed by Bakhtin's (1981, 1984, 1986) work on dialogicality and Tannen's (1989, 2004) notion of constructed dialogue, this article explores the young men's use of voices for their positioning in a range of fathering discourses which are shaped by and shape intersectional and hegemonic masculinities. Intersections of race, ethnicity, and social class inform many of the young men's positions, especially in their talk about the influences of hip hop on their children. This polyphony of voices allows the group to balance traditional discourses of fathers as providers, protectors, and moral guides with contemporary models of intimate and involved fatherhood, but also competing discourses of virile masculinity and bad boy identity. (Dialogicality, discourse, ethnicity, fatherhood, hegemony, heteroglossia, intersectionality, identity, masculinity, race, social class, voice

Aesthetics · Ethnic group · Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Heteroglossia · Identity (music) · Intersectionality · Linguistics · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Polyphony · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy

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