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Good Composure: Mapping Shifting Norms In The Language Of Televised Australian Rules Commentary, Samantha Allender

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This thesis has its origins deeply rooted in astonishment and curiosity. When I sat to watch a televised game of Australian Rules football in 2009, after a viewing absence of over two decades, I found that the language was so distinctly foreign, the positioning of the ordinary so unexpected that it took a while to locate. The contrast between my expectations, however deeply buried they may have been, and the actuality seemed a seismic shift in the ideology of what (in my raised-in-Melbourne-mind) is not only Australia’s national sport, but also the greatest contest game on earth. Degrees of ambivalence …