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This article provides an insight into the heteroglossic and intersectional construction of fatherhood in the self-recorded, spontaneous talk of a group of young men from ethnically and racially mixed working-class backgrounds in southeast London. By adopting an interactional sociolinguistic approach, informed by Bakhtin's (1981, 1984, 1986) work on dialogicality and Tannen's (1989, 2004) notion of constructed dialogue, this article explores the young men's use of voices for their positioning in a range of fathering discourses which are shaped by and shape intersectional and hegemonic masculinities. Intersections of race, ethnicity, and social class inform many of the young men's positions, especially in their talk about the influences of hip hop on their children. This polyphony of voices allows the group to balance traditional discourses of fathers as providers, protectors, and moral guides with contemporary models of intimate and involved fatherhood, but also competing discourses of virile masculinity and bad boy identity. (Dialogicality, discourse, ethnicity, fatherhood, hegemony, heteroglossia, intersectionality, identity, masculinity, race, social class, voice) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2007.03.002 Byline: Pia Pichler Abstract: This article combines insights from existing research on young 'Asian' hybridities and micro-linguistic approaches to language/discourse and identity by linking an exploration of discourses and subject positions negotiated in the talk of five British Bangladeshi girls to an analysis of lexical, syntactic, paralinguistic and sequential features of their interaction. The extracts of data I present originate from spontaneous conversations about the topic of marriage, self-recorded by five 15-16-year old girls from London, England. They reflect not only the heterogeneity of the positions adopted by individual members of the group, but also the complex process of negotiations that the girls engage in locally to find a consensus on their group's stance to marriage. The article focuses on the modified discourse of arranged marriage which emerges as a hybrid in the girls' interactive negotiations of a wide range of cultural discourses with ethnic, gendered, classed and more local inflections and provides a significant space for the girls' construction of British Bangladeshi femininities. Author Affiliation: Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK