Norwegian big bang theory: production of gendered sound during team handball broadcasts
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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International Journal of Sport Communication. 2011, 4(3), 344-358Sammendrag
This study investigates Norwegian television commentary of men’s team handball.
Five World Championship games and 5 European Championship games were
recorded and all commentaries transcribed. The main focus was to investigate
gendered patterns and to suggest ways these patterns might shape particular
understandings of the game and its players. By combining Connell’s gender
perspectives with discourse analysis, implicit and explicit meanings were located
within the commentaries. Further data analysis revealed that televised depictions
of men’s handball hold a dominant focus on a specific form of masculinity. Fueled
by gendered symbolism and metaphors, the word bang was identified as a key
signifier for this particular form of masculinity. The contextual use of bang was
analyzed as connoting and reproducing specific notions of sport and masculinities.
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