TY - JOUR

T1 - Exploring the processes of emergent leadership in a netball team

T2 - Providing empirical evidence through discourse analysis

AU - Schnurr, Stephanie

AU - File, Kieran A.

AU - Clayton, Daniel

AU - Wolfers, Solvejg

AU - Stavridou, Anastasia

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2020.

PY - 2021/2/1

Y1 - 2021/2/1

N2 - In line with recent developments in leadership research which conceptualise leadership as a discursive and collaborative process rather than a set of static attributes and characteristics displayed by individuals, this paper explores some of the discursive processes through which leadership emerges in a sports team. Drawing on over ten hours of naturally occurring interactions among the players of a women’s netball team in the UK, and applying the concepts of deontic and epistemic status and stance, we identify and describe some of the specific processes through which leadership is claimed and assigned, as well as rejected, passed on, and eventually accepted by different team members at different points throughout an interaction. While the processes outlined in our analysis contribute to theoretical discussions regarding the notion of emergent leadership, this paper also demonstrates the benefits of taking a discourse analytical approach to leadership, and outlines how such an approach enables researchers to empirically capture emergent leadership in situ.

AB - In line with recent developments in leadership research which conceptualise leadership as a discursive and collaborative process rather than a set of static attributes and characteristics displayed by individuals, this paper explores some of the discursive processes through which leadership emerges in a sports team. Drawing on over ten hours of naturally occurring interactions among the players of a women’s netball team in the UK, and applying the concepts of deontic and epistemic status and stance, we identify and describe some of the specific processes through which leadership is claimed and assigned, as well as rejected, passed on, and eventually accepted by different team members at different points throughout an interaction. While the processes outlined in our analysis contribute to theoretical discussions regarding the notion of emergent leadership, this paper also demonstrates the benefits of taking a discourse analytical approach to leadership, and outlines how such an approach enables researchers to empirically capture emergent leadership in situ.

KW - Language Studies

KW - deontic stance

KW - deontic status

KW - emergent leadership

KW - epistemic stance

KW - epistemic status

KW - sports discource

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097605592&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1750481320961658

DO - 10.1177/1750481320961658

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 15

SP - 98

EP - 116

JO - Discourse and Communication

JF - Discourse and Communication

SN - 1750-4813

IS - 1

ER -