The language and discourse(s) of football. Interdisciplinary and cross-modal perspectives
Introduction to the thematic issue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21156017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva-Maria Graf (0000-0002-6498-8105, University of Klagenfurt, corresponding author), Marcus Callies (0000-0002-7069-5819, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies; English-Speaking Cultures, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany), Melanie Fleischhacker (0000-0001-8938-1396, University of Klagenfurt) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 921-925 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soccer and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-0970 • E-ISSN: 1743-9590 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14660970.2023.2250658 |
| OpenAlex | W4386750505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
Sport is essentially unnatural, given that it is organized, enacted, and reproduced through language and other communicative practices in ways that echo and maintain particular cultural forms and their ideological underpinnings". 1 In 2010, the communication scientists Men and Halone introduced their collection of papers on "Situating Sport, Language, and Culture as a Site for Intellectual Discussion" in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology by claiming that "(t)he articles in this special issue provide an opportunity to illustrate how the domain of 'sport, language, and culture' can become a burgeoning site for future intellectual discussion". 2 The collection of papers in this thematic issue aims to advance this intellectual discussion by presenting up-to-date research on the intricate relatedness of sport, language, and culture.In particular, it further deepens our understanding of the prominent role that language and discursive practices play in a domain that is still often associated primarily with physical activities.While there is by now a sizable scholarly literature on the various linguistic aspects of sports, these publications often originate in discourse and communication studies, thereby setting a different focus (e.g. the Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication or the Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media).In contrast, this thematic issue brings together cutting-edge linguistic research based on theories and models that focus on formal, functional, socialconstructivist, interactional and applied aspects of language and discourse in the domain of football.For such linguistic research it is paramount to work with and analyse authentic, i.e. contextualized language data as can most recently be found in the collection edited by Caldwell et al. 3 While the latter covers a range of different sports, the present thematic issue zooms in exclusively on football as the major spectator sport in Europe and South America that has in recent years also gained popularity in the UAE, Asia and the USA.Football has witnessed a continuously growing popularity and intensive coverage in various kinds of traditional and new media, and besides the traditional association between football and men, female football has most recently gained impressive grounds as the media attention and spectator numbers in the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championship in England and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand impressively illustrate. 4Playing football no longer automatically means football played by men.While football's increased popularization and public attention has also led to more research on football across various fields and disciplines such as sports psychology, sociology of sports and educational sciences/sports pedagogy, linguistic research on football is still a relatively recent academic (sub)field.Findings are scattered across various publication outlets, with only few thematically focused collections existing to date. 5 So far, no linguistic journal or book series is dedicated solely to this type of sport.To conclude, in the spirit of Lavric and colleagues' pioneering volume, 6 the present collection of international papers sets out to continue to "illustrate the richness of linguistic analysis in connection with football"
Football · Geography · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Thematic map · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Law · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy
Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication
The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports
Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media
Naming rights sponsorship in Europe
The evolution of football live text commentaries
Proper football people’
Performance in the stands
Situating Sport, Language, and Culture as a Site for Intellectual Discussion
Language and Masculinity
That match was "a bit like losing your virginity". Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches
You're Manchester United manager, you can't say things like that
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |