Abstract
This study documents how participants in an all-female youth sport organization negotiate oppositional discourses of identity. Employing Fairhurst and Putnam’s (2019) integrative method of organizational discourse analysis, the findings revealed hegemonic and alternative discourses related to gender (i.e., boys and girls are different; boys and girls are the same), which influenced how participants negotiated a nested feminine-athletic identity and nested identity discourses. Finally, this study offers a typology for how members negotiated oppositional nested and higher-order identities through (a) fleeing, (b) challenging, (c) constricting, and (d) expanding. Practical implications for how these oppositional discourses affect participation in life enrichment groups are discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 381-403 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Communication Monographs |
Volume | 87 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2 2020 |
Keywords
- Nested identity
- identity management
- oppositional discourse analysis
- paradox
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Language and Linguistics
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Toward a typology for negotiating layered identities: An oppositional discourse analysis of girls’ youth sport
Zanin, A. (Contributor), Shearer, E. T. (Contributor) & Martinez, L. V. (Contributor), figshare Academic Research System, Jul 2 2020
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11917860.v1, https://doi.org/10.6084%2Fm9.figshare.11917860.v1
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