Corpus Approaches To The Language Of Sports

Author : Marcus Callies,Magnus Levin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781350088221

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Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports by Marcus Callies,Magnus Levin Pdf

Recent decades have seen a fundamental change and transformation in the commercialisation and popularisation of sports and sporting events. Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports uses corpus resources to offer new perspectives on the language and discourse of this increasingly popular and culturally significant area of research. Bringing together a range of empirical studies from leading scholars, this book bridges the gap between quantitative corpus approaches and more qualitative, multimodal discourse methods. Covering a wide range of sports, including football, cycling and basketball, the linguistic aspects of sports language are analysed across different genres and contexts. Highlighting the importance of studying the language of sports alongside its accompanying audio-visual modes of communication, chapters draw on new digitised collections of language to fully describe and understand the complexities of communication through various channels. In doing so, Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports not only offers exciting new insights into the language of sports but also extends the scope of corpus linguistics beyond traditional monomodal approaches to put multimodality firmly on the agenda.

Author : Marcus Callies,Magnus Levin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781350088214

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Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports by Marcus Callies,Magnus Levin Pdf

Recent decades have seen a fundamental change and transformation in the commercialisation and popularisation of sports and sporting events. Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports uses corpus resources to offer new perspectives on the language and discourse of this increasingly popular and culturally significant area of research. Bringing together a range of empirical studies from leading scholars, this book bridges the gap between quantitative corpus approaches and more qualitative, multimodal discourse methods. Covering a wide range of sports, including football, cycling and basketball, the linguistic aspects of sports language are analysed across different genres and contexts. Highlighting the importance of studying the language of sports alongside its accompanying audio-visual modes of communication, chapters draw on new digitised collections of language to fully describe and understand the complexities of communication through various channels. In doing so, Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports not only offers exciting new insights into the language of sports but also extends the scope of corpus linguistics beyond traditional monomodal approaches to put multimodality firmly on the agenda.

Author : John Walsh,David Caldwell,Jon Jureidini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351060974

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Evaluative Language in Sports by John Walsh,David Caldwell,Jon Jureidini Pdf

Walsh, Caldwell and Jureidini offer an expansive linguistic perspective on the evaluative language prevalent in the world of professional sports. This book presents a close linguistic analysis of evaluative language in sport. Drawing on appraisal theory and data from three distinct sporting contexts – songs and chants in football stadiums, television commentary and coach discourse – it examines the critical role played by affectual, judgemental and appreciative language. In the spirit of sociolinguistics, this book also considers the history and culture of the respective sporting contexts. Connections are made between the evaluative language expressed by supporters, commentators and coaches and the invocation of power and solidarity. Evaluative Language in Sports gives insight into some of the key language practices that contribute to professional sports culture: a communal and combative world of winners and losers, ‘us and ‘them’. An innovative and valuable book that will appeal to students, researchers and sports enthusiasts interested in sports communication and language, sociolinguistics and media studies.

Author : David Caldwell,John Walsh,Elaine W. Vine,Jon Jureidini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317290612

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The Discourse of Sport by David Caldwell,John Walsh,Elaine W. Vine,Jon Jureidini Pdf

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.

Author : Stephanie Schnurr,Kieran File
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110789829

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The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports by Stephanie Schnurr,Kieran File Pdf

Author : Anna Cermakova,Michaela Mahlberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350177000

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Children’s Literature and Childhood Discourses by Anna Cermakova,Michaela Mahlberg Pdf

Children's literature shapes what children learn about the world. It reflects social values, norms, and stereotypes. This book offers fresh insights into some of the key issues in fiction for children, from the representation of gender to embodied cognition and the translation of children's literature. Connecting classic children's texts such as Alice in Wonderland with contemporary fiction including Murder Most Unladylike, the book innovatively brings together perspectives from corpus linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and human geography. It explores approaches to experiencing fiction, as well as methods for the study of literary texts. Childhood discourses are investigated through the materiality of texts, the spaces that literature takes up in libraries, the cultural history of fiction moulded through performances, as well as reading environments that shape childhood experiences, such as fashion and urban spaces. Children's Literature and Childhood Discourses emphasizes the crucial link between fictional stories and real life.

Author : Salvador Pons Bordería,Shima Salameh Jiménez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248589

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Language Change in the 20th Century by Salvador Pons Bordería,Shima Salameh Jiménez Pdf

Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the book advocates for the adoption of innovative methodologies to enhance the nuanced retrieval of research data: the use of speaker’s attitudes questionnaires, apparent time constructions, and S-curves. Additionally, new materials are addressed as diachronic data sources: mass-media recordings from radio and TV, colloquial conversations, and sociolinguistic corpora. Results focus on the evolution of discourse markers, address terms, as well as on the influence of specific processes such as colloquialization or external mechanisms on the language changes developed during this period. In sum, the 20th century is presented in this book as a new strand in diachronic studies, rather than another time span.

Author : Jonathan Charteris-Black
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230000612

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Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis by Jonathan Charteris-Black Pdf

In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response. 'Critical Metaphor Analysis' is then developed in a series of corpus-based studies in which analysis of collocations provides insight into the cognitive motivation and expressive connotation of metaphor. By unifying traditional and cognitive semantic with pragmatic approaches, the reader becomes aware of the importance of metaphor in persuasive language.

Author : Kuniyoshi Kataoka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781350319486

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Language and Body in Place and Space by Kuniyoshi Kataoka Pdf

Drawing on the author's experience as a sociolinguist and a mountain climber, this book shows how the expertise and affect-laden experience of Japanese rock climbers can be illuminated through linguistic methods and theories. Through a detailed investigation of multimodal interaction among climbers, the book explores a number of significant sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological themes, including spatial frames of reference, intersubjectivity, chronotopic configurations, and poetic formations of talk. In doing so, it presents climbing as a condensed locus of human interactions in which the integrated analysis of semiotic processes brings to light a new set of relationships between humans and their surroundings. Grounded in an extended and focused participation in rock climbing activities and interviews with other climbers, Kuniyoshi Kataoka examines the assemblage of semiotic resources including the language, the body, and the space mediated by their climbing equipment and the surrounding environment. The result is a showcase of interdisciplinary multimodal approaches to climbing discourse analysis in and around the gravity-sensitive zone, ranging from expert climbers' instruction to novices, gossip and narratives on near-death experiences, to a multi-participant discussion of a critical accident. As well as demonstrating how language reflects extraordinary experiences on the vertical plane, the findings also offer a chance to learn more about climbing, which is attracting a growing number of participants and competitors worldwide.

Author : Dániel Z. Kádár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108472968

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Ritual and Language by Dániel Z. Kádár Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, this pioneering book provides a cutting-edge introduction to ritual language use.

Author : Brendan H. O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350298545

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Multilingual Baseball by Brendan H. O'Connor Pdf

What can baseball teach us about language, culture, and society? The first book-length exploration of multilingualism in professional sports, Multilingual Baseball provides an intimate look at language diversity in the transnational world of baseball. Based on extensive interviews and observations in the US and the Dominican Republic, the book foregrounds the voices of current and former players, coaches, front office personnel, international scouts, language teachers, and interpreters, with baseball experience in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Engaging a wide range of foundational concepts within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic and cultural anthropology, the analysis reveals the relevance of bilingualism to the social and economic realities of professional baseball as a transnational business. It also illuminates day-to-day encounters with linguistic and cultural difference on the field, in clubhouses, and in communities around the world. Through this linguistic lens, the book delves into social issues in diverse societies by connecting interactions within baseball to the broader challenges of immigration, race, and demographic change. While grounded in the experiences of Spanish and English speakers in US Major League Baseball organizations, Multilingual Baseball presents the transnational game as a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting readers to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday baseball interactions.

Author : Saskia Kersten,Christian Ludwig
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800414822

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Born-Digital Texts in the English Language Classroom by Saskia Kersten,Christian Ludwig Pdf

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting international and innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a theoretically sound framework for curriculum, materials and methods design that takes into account the growing ubiquity of born-digital texts in the digital age. It covers a broad variety of born-digital text types (including those generated by AI) which so far have not been an explicit focus in the context of language teaching, while also providing a grounding in current discussions around digital tools in education. The chapters cover a wide range of issues from methodological approaches to born-digital texts to curriculum, syllabus and materials design. The book will be a valuable introduction to the subject for trainee and practising teachers, as well as teacher educators and students on EFL courses. Chapter 7 will be free to download as an open access publication. We will link to it here as soon as it is available.

Author : Matteo Di Cristofaro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000915594

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Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media by Matteo Di Cristofaro Pdf

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, surveying current approaches, and offering guidelines and best practices for doing language analysis. The book provides an overview of how language in social media has been approached by linguists and non-linguists, before delving into the identification of the datasets requirements needed to pursue investigations in social media, and of the technical aspects of particular platforms that may influence the analysis, such as emoticons, retweets, and metadata. Sample Python code, along with general guidelines for using it, is provided to empower researchers to apply these techniques in their own work, supported by actual examples from three real-life case studies. Di Cristofaro highlights the full potential of using these methodologies in analysing social media language data and the ways in which they might pave the way for future applications of data analysis and processing for corpus linguistics. The book will be key reading for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguists and social scientists interested in data-driven analysis of social media.

Author : Alessandra Fazio
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788861349148

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Analysing the Language of Sport and Related Sciences by Alessandra Fazio Pdf

Author : Eric Friginal,Jack A. Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429535628

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis by Eric Friginal,Jack A. Hardy Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis highlights the diversity, breadth, and depth of corpus approaches to discourse analysis, compiling new and original research from notable scholars across the globe. Chapters showcase recent developments influenced by the exponential growth in linguistic computing, advances in corpus design and compilation, and the applications of sound quantitative and interpretive techniques in analyzing text and discourse patterns. Key discourse domains covered by 35 empirical chapters include: • Research contexts and methodological considerations; • Naturally occurring spoken, professional, and academic discourse; • Corpus approaches to conversational discourse, media discourse, and professional and academic writing. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis is key reading for both experienced and novice researchers working at the intersection of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, as well as anyone undertaking study in these areas, as well as anyone interested in related fields and adjacent research approaches.