{"title":"“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews","authors":"Sarah M. Adams","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study contributes to work on sports discourse by undertaking an interactional analysis of talk in hockey post-game interviews. Drawing upon studies of interview contexts including broadcast news interviews and sports post-game interviews, I examine hockey journalists' questions and players' responses, where issues of ‘blame’ and ‘praise’ quickly reveal themselves to be of primary consequence to these participants. I draw attention to concrete aspects of turn design that the interlocutors make use of in constructing their questions and answers; through these question-answer sequences, which are quantified as part of the analysis, the participants collaboratively construct and reinforce the hockey community of practice and foster an essential positive relationship between the individual and his team, which I gloss as “teamness”.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 70-83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530925000175","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The present study contributes to work on sports discourse by undertaking an interactional analysis of talk in hockey post-game interviews. Drawing upon studies of interview contexts including broadcast news interviews and sports post-game interviews, I examine hockey journalists' questions and players' responses, where issues of ‘blame’ and ‘praise’ quickly reveal themselves to be of primary consequence to these participants. I draw attention to concrete aspects of turn design that the interlocutors make use of in constructing their questions and answers; through these question-answer sequences, which are quantified as part of the analysis, the participants collaboratively construct and reinforce the hockey community of practice and foster an essential positive relationship between the individual and his team, which I gloss as “teamness”.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.
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