The Discourse of Sport
Analyses from Social Linguistics
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2016
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-138-18468-8 (ISBN)
Description
This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of language-in-use in the context of sport, and interprets them through the lens of larger issues within sport culture and practice. With contributions from an international group of scholars, this an essential reference for scholars and researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, sport communication, sport management, journalism and media studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
88 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 13 s/w Zeichnungen, 69 s/w Tabellen
69 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 88 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
529 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-18468-8 (9781138184688)
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Persons
David Caldwell is a Lecturer in English Language and Literacy in the School of Education at The University of South Australia.
John Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Elaine W. Vine is a Honorary Research Associate in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
John Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Elaine W. Vine is a Honorary Research Associate in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
Content
Foreword: Lindsey J. Mean
Chapter 1: Discourse, linguistics, sport and the academy: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine and Jon Jureidini
Chapter 2: Language as a key resource for the football coach: a case study of in-game coaching at one Australian Rules club: John Walsh and Jon Jureidini
Chapter 3: Representations of experience in the language of televised and radio football commentaries: Patterns of similarity and difference in Transitivity: Ben Clarke
Chapter 4: Personal Assistants, Community Interpreting, and Other Communication Strategies in Multilingual (European) Football Teams: Eva Lavric and Jasmin Steiner
Chapter 5: 'I didn't know you were allowed two goalkeepers': How football managers negotiate invitations to criticise referees in the media: Kieran A. File
Chapter 6: The interactional construction of evaluation in post-match football interviews: Antje Wilton
Chapter 7: The Visceral and the Analytics: Discourses in the Evaluation of Sports Players: John Walsh and David Caldwell
Chapter 8: Constructions of 'whiteness': Race, sport and Australian media: Alison Wrench and Robyne Garrett
Chapter 9: Rankings in Sports Discourse and their Metaphors: Eva Lavric and Josef Weidacher (?)
Chapter 10: Of Cover Girls and Bad Boys: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Gendered Keywords in Malaysian Sports News Discourse: Habibah Ismail
Chapter 11: The Register of Sports News around the World - A Quantitative Study of Field in Newspaper Sports Coverage: Jennifer Fest
Chapter 12: Results, resolve, reaction: words, images and the functional structure of online match reports: Helen Caple
Chapter 1: Discourse, linguistics, sport and the academy: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine and Jon Jureidini
Chapter 2: Language as a key resource for the football coach: a case study of in-game coaching at one Australian Rules club: John Walsh and Jon Jureidini
Chapter 3: Representations of experience in the language of televised and radio football commentaries: Patterns of similarity and difference in Transitivity: Ben Clarke
Chapter 4: Personal Assistants, Community Interpreting, and Other Communication Strategies in Multilingual (European) Football Teams: Eva Lavric and Jasmin Steiner
Chapter 5: 'I didn't know you were allowed two goalkeepers': How football managers negotiate invitations to criticise referees in the media: Kieran A. File
Chapter 6: The interactional construction of evaluation in post-match football interviews: Antje Wilton
Chapter 7: The Visceral and the Analytics: Discourses in the Evaluation of Sports Players: John Walsh and David Caldwell
Chapter 8: Constructions of 'whiteness': Race, sport and Australian media: Alison Wrench and Robyne Garrett
Chapter 9: Rankings in Sports Discourse and their Metaphors: Eva Lavric and Josef Weidacher (?)
Chapter 10: Of Cover Girls and Bad Boys: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Gendered Keywords in Malaysian Sports News Discourse: Habibah Ismail
Chapter 11: The Register of Sports News around the World - A Quantitative Study of Field in Newspaper Sports Coverage: Jennifer Fest
Chapter 12: Results, resolve, reaction: words, images and the functional structure of online match reports: Helen Caple