Language in Sport

Real-Time Talk in Training and Games
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-58391-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Language and Communication

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ross, Andrew S.

Caldwell, David

Doran, Y. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Sports Linguistics: Speaking and Doing

ANDREW S. ROSS, DAVID CALDWELL AND Y. J. DORAN

2 The “Other” Side of Leadership: Unpacking Leadership and Followership Performance through Linguistics in a University Basketball Team

ANASTASIA STAVRIDOU

3 Discursively Regulating Driver Emotions During Live Formula 1 Racing Events: an Emotion Regulation Interpretation of Time-Gap Information Messages

KIERAN FILE

4 The Lexicon of Team- Based Spoken Rugby Discourse

STUART BENSON

5 Socialisation and Organisation: The Language and Discourse Within Cycling Group Rides

ANDREW S. ROSS

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

NICK WILSON

7 Mic’d up and Mentoring: A Discourse Analysis of Mediatised Coach Discourse

DAVID CALDWELL

8 Demarcating Information: Setting up Drills and Giving Instructions in Sport

Y. J. DORAN AND LILIÁN I. ARIZTIMUNO

9 The Coach- Athlete Communication Interface at an Australian Ski Racing Club: Coaching Styles and Coach Communication in Ski Racing

JOHN LYLE, IAN RENSHAW AND JOHN WILLIAMS

10 Toward Language- Based Pedagogies for In- Game Communications in Youth Level Sport

IAN SHERWIN, FERGUS O’DWYER, AND SALLY MCCARTHY

11 Developing Behaviours and Beliefs in Ballet

ELENA LAMBRINOS

12 Language in Sport: Wherefore and Where To?

Y. J. DORAN, DAVID CALDWELL AND ANDREW S. ROSS

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew S. Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Canberra, Australia.

David Caldwell is Associate Professor in English Language and Literacy at the University of South Australia.

Y. J. Doran is Associate Professor in English Language and Literacy at the Australian Catholic University.