Multilingual Baseball

Author : Brendan H. O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350298538

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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 : Brendan H. O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Rob Ruck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803289782

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The Tropic of Baseball by Rob Ruck Pdf

Looks at the history of baseball in the Dominican Republic and looks at the most prominent Dominicans to reach the Major Leagues

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525433828

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Insider Baseball by Joan Didion Pdf

A Vintage Shorts Selection • Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion’s now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail exposed, in no uncertain terms, the complete sham that is the modern American presidential run. Writing with bite and some humor too, Didion betrays “the process”—the way in which power is exchanged and the status quo is maintained. All insiders—politicians, journalists, spin doctors—participate in a political narrative that is “designed as it is to maintain the illusion of consensus by obscuring rather than addressing actual issues.” The optics of presidential campaigns have grown ever more farcical and remote from the needs and issues most relevant to Americans’ lives, and Didion’s elegant, shrewd, and prescient commentary has never been more urgent than it is right now. An ebook short.

Author : George Gmelch,Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496201034

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Baseball Beyond Our Borders by George Gmelch,Daniel A. Nathan Pdf

Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played. This collection of essays tells the story of America's national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseball took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport's place in each culture. But what lies in store as baseball's passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.

Author : Heather DiLorenzo Williams
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781791103835

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Baseball by Heather DiLorenzo Williams Pdf

Did you know that baseball is one of the most popular sports in the United States? Millions of people watch baseball games every year. Discover these and other interesting facts in Baseball.

Author : John D. Daniels,Lee H. Radebaugh,Daniel P. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : International business enterprises
ISBN : NWU:35556039445770

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International Business by John D. Daniels,Lee H. Radebaugh,Daniel P. Sullivan Pdf

For undergraduate and graduate level international business courses. International Business, 12/e is an authoritative and engaging voice on conducting business in international markets.

Author : Pierre Dallaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1245765023

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Glossary of baseball terms by Pierre Dallaire Pdf

Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316096102

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Wild Pitch by Matt Christopher Pdf

Eddie doesn't like the idea of girls playing baseball in his league, but when one of his pitches injures a girl, he rethinks his attitudes.

Author : D. Sommer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982704

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Bilingual Games by D. Sommer Pdf

These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernism-multiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication. Sommer asserts that many people normally live-that is, think, feel, create, reason, persuade, laugh-in more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship (aesthetics; language and philosophy; psychoanalysis, and politics) cannot see or hear more than one language at a time. The goal of these essays is to create a new field: bilingual arts & aesthetics which examine the aesthetic product produced by bilingual diasporic communities. The focus of this volume is the Americas, but examples and theoretical proposals come from Europe as well. In both areas, the issue offers another level of complexity to the migrant and cosmopolitan character of local societies in a global economy.

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786494360

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The Tecumsehs of the International Association by Brian Martin Pdf

This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, were among the founding members of the International Association in 1877, the first league established to challenge the struggling National League, formed a year earlier. The team played against the top competition of the day and defeated nines from Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere. They became the first champions of the International Association when they defeated Pittsburgh with the arm of Fred Goldsmith, one of the first curveball pitchers. This is also the story of the International Association, the only one of the six leagues challenging the primacy of the National League that has never been accorded major league status. To this day it has been relegated to minor league status to the detriment of some of the pioneer players in the game.

Author : Brendan Flynn
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512424386

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Baseball Time! by Brendan Flynn Pdf

Carefully leveled text and vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about the basics of the sport of baseball. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

Author : Sarah Dann,John Crossingham
Publisher : Banjo Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Base-ball
ISBN : 2895792895

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Le baseball by Sarah Dann,John Crossingham Pdf

Le texte simple est abondamment illustré de photographies et d'aquarelles de synthèse mettant en scène de jeunes sportifs croqués dans le feu de l'action. [SDM]

Author : Pierre Dallaire,CBC Enterprises
Publisher : CBC Enterprises
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Baseball
ISBN : MSU:31293036400699

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Glossary of Baseball Terms : English-French, French-English by Pierre Dallaire,CBC Enterprises Pdf

Author : Jorge Iber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476649375

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Beisbol on the Air by Jorge Iber Pdf

Both the U.S. population and Major League Baseball rosters have seen dramatic demographic changes over the past 50 years. The nation and the sport are becoming multilingual, with Spanish the unofficial second language. Today, 21 of 30 MLB teams broadcast at least some games in Spanish. Filling a gap in the literature of baseball, this collection of new essays examines the history of the game in Spanish, from the earliest locutores who called the plays for Latin American audiences to the League's expansion into cities with large Latino populations--Los Angeles, Houston and Miami to name a few--that made talented sportscasters for the fanaticos a business necessity.