‘I've got a daughter now man it's clean man’: Heteroglossic and intersectional constructions of fatherhood in the spontaneous talk of a group of young southeast London men

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