Abstract
A close analysis of boys’ language-in-action in sport is timely given the increasingly progressive social developments in sport which aim to challenge the prevailing heteronormativity and orthodox masculinity. This is particularly relevant to Australian Aboriginal boys, for whom sport can function as a place of education and belonging, as well as site of racism and marginalization. Through interpersonal discourse analysis, this paper closely examines the language-in-action of Aboriginal boys playing elite level Australia football, focusing specifically on the ways in which they use language to construe power and enact solidarity within an aggressive, violent and hyper-masculine context. Of particular interest to this paper is the ways in which these language-in-action practices support, challenge and/or re-define traditional discourses of masculinity.
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