Language in Sport
Real-Time Talk in Training and Games
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About this book
This collection showcases the language of "doing" sport, emphasizing the real-time talk of players and coaches during training and games toward elucidating real-time language use and encouraging effective sporting pedagogies. While there is established work at the intersection of linguistics and sport, this book places a particular focus on real-time participation, as opposed to media reporting or post-match commentary.
The volume is divided into two sections which look at language in action in sporting contexts, with the first part dedicated to player communication and the latter on coaches' engagement with players, to explore such issues as team building, leadership, player guidance, and instruction through language. Examples are drawn from a wide range of sports across levels, including basketball; volleyball; Formula 1; rugby; cycling; and skiing across professional, amateur, and youth leagues. Taken together, the volume makes the case for an integrated social and linguistic perspective on language use in sport in real time to better understand its impact on players, foster more inclusive sporting pedagogies, and continue to grow sport research in interdisciplinary directions.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in language and communication, applied linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and the sociology of sport.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Sports Linguistics: Speaking and Doing
- 2 The “Other” Side of Leadership: Unpacking Leadership and Followership Performance through Linguistics in a University Basketball Team
- 3 Discursively Regulating Driver Emotions During Live Formula 1 Racing Events: An Emotion Regulation Interpretation of Time-Gap Information Messages
- 4 The Lexicon of Team-Based Spoken Rugby Discourse
- 5 Socialisation and Organisation: Language and Discourse Within Cycling Group Rides
- 6 Ambiguous Person Reference in Coach Talk: How New Zealand Rugby Coaches Mediate the Directness of Their Player-Directed Speech through the Use of Pronouns, Personal Names, and Familiar Address Terms
- 7 Mic’d up and Mentoring: A Discourse Analysis of Mediatised Coach Discourse
- 8 Demarcating Information: Setting up Drills and Giving Instructions in Sport
- 9 The Coach-Athlete Communication Interface at an Australian Ski Racing Club: Coaching Styles and Coach Communication in Ski Racing
- 10 Toward Language-Based Pedagogies for In-Game Communications in Youth Level Sport
- 11 Developing Behaviours and Beliefs in Ballet
- 12 Language in Sport: Wherefore and Where To?
- Index