Research Interests
Sports communication, professional identity, impression management, relationship management, team culture, media discourse, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, genre and register, qualitative research methods.
Biography
Kieran's research explores how professional athletes, coaches and managers use language when engaged in team and media communication. His PhD looked at the language of post-match interviews and identified patterns related to this genre of language use. His current research focus is on how athletes, coaches and managers build team culture through their communication choices. Kieran also applies his research to help professional athletes, coaches and managers with their communication needs. The Academy Project aims to help provide young players with media education earlier in their careers. He also helps players, coaches and managers with public and team-directed communication issues emerging in their specific sporting contexts.
- Worlledge, Thomas, File, Kieran A., 2023. Fan identity and football culture : locating variation in the discursive performance of football fan identities in a UK stadium. Soccer & Society, 24 (7), pp. 974-989
- Schnurr, Stephanie, File, Kieran A., Clayton, Daniel, Stavridou, Anastasia, Wolfers, Solvejg, 2021. Exploring the processes of emergent leadership in a netball team. Providing empirical evidence through discourse analysis. Discourse and Communication, 15 (1), pp. 98-116
- File, Kieran A., 2018. ?You're Manchester United manager, you can't say things like that?: impression management and identity performance by professional football managers in the media. Journal of Pragmatics, 127, pp. 56-70
- File, Kieran A., Schnurr, Stephanie, 2018. That match was ?a bit like losing your virginity?. Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches. Journal of Pragmatics
- Wolfers, Solvejg, File, Kieran A., Schnurr, Stephanie, 2017. Just because he's black? : identity construction and racial humour in a German U-19 football team. Journal of Pragmatics, 112, pp. 83-96
- File, K., 2015. The strategic enactment of a media identity by professional team sports players. Discourse & Communication, 9 (4), pp. 441-464
- File, Kieran A., 2012. Post-match interviews in New Zealand rugby : a conciliatory media interview genre. New Zealand English Journal, 26 (1), pp. 1-22
- File, Kieran Andrew, Adams, Rebecca, 2010. Should vocabulary instruction be integrated or isolated?. TESOL Quarterly, 44 (2), pp. 222-249
- File, Kieran Andrew, 2022. How language shapes relationships in professional sports teams : power and solidarity dynamics in a New Zealand rugby team. London; New York; Dublin, Bloomsbury Academic
- File, Kieran A., Schnurr, Stephanie, 2020. Towards an understanding of linguistic consultancy : how do linguists approach the task of evaluating sociolinguistic practice in consultancy sessions?. Mullany, Louise (ed.), Professional Communication : Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan
- File, Kieran A., 2019. Managing impressions and relationships when speaking to the sports media. Collins, Dave; Cruickshank , Andrew; Jordet, Geir (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, Routledge
- File, Kieran Andrew, 2018. Genre theory. In The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace, Routledge, pp. 112-124
- File, Kieran A., 2017. Genre theory. In Vine, Bernadette (ed.), The Routledge handbook of Language in the workplace, New York, Routledge, pp. 112-124
- File, Kieran A., 2017. ?I didn't know you were allowed two goalkeepers' : how football managers negotiate invitations to criticise referees in the media. In Caldwel, David; Walsh, John; Vine, Elaine; Jureidini , Jon (eds.), The Discourse of Sport : Analyses from Social Linguistics, New York, NY, Routledge, pp. 71-91
- File, Kieran A., 2017. 'That was a bit daft though, wasn't it?' Strategic use of impoliteness in a post-match interview. In Baczkowska, Anna (ed.), Impoliteness in media discourse, Frankfurt am Main; New York, NY, Peter Lang Edition, pp. 107-125
- File, Kieran A., Wilson, Nick, 2017. Adapting self for private and public audiences : the enactment of leadership identity by New Zealand rugby coaches in huddles and interviews. In van de Mieroop, Dorien; Schnurr, Stephanie (eds.), Identity Struggles. Evidence from Workplaces around the World, Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 321-337
- File, Kieran A., 2016. Book review: Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland (eds), The Discourse Reader and Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak (eds), The Discourse Studies Reader : Main Currents in Theory and Analysis. Discourse Studies, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 230-233
- File, Kieran A., 2015. Review of Contrastive Media Analysis : Approaches to Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Mass Media Communication by Hauser, Stefan and Luginbuhl, Martin (eds).. Discourse Studies, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 369-371
- File, Kieran A., 2012. Review of MAK Halliday : The Essential Halliday by Webster, J. J. (ed).. Discourse Studies, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 816-817
- File, Kieran A., 2011. Review of News Talk by Cotter, Colleen.. Discourse Studies, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 389-390
| Title | Funder | Award start | Award end |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postively influencing efforts to promote the women's game by developing knowledge on how rugby coaches can effectively shape playing environments for women and girls through language and social interaction practices. Link to Ideate Ref 80660 | Rugby Football Union | 06 Jan 2025 | 05 Jan 2027 |
| Postively influencing efforts to promote the women's game by developing knowledge on how rugby coaches can effectively shape playing environments for women and girls through language and social interaction practices. Link to Ideate Ref. 80661 | Innovate UK | 15 Jul 2024 | 14 Jul 2026 |