Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports: Texts, Media, Modalities (Corpus and Discourse)

Marcus Callies

ISBN 10: 135008820X / ISBN 13: 9781350088207

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports: Texts, Media, Modalities (Corpus and Discourse)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 135008820X
• ISBN 13: 9781350088207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Marcus Callies is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Magnus Levin is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.