Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports: Texts, Media, Modalities

by Marcus Callies (Editor), Michaela Mahlberg (Editor), Magnus Levin (Editor), Gavin Brookes (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350088207
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/19/2019
Series:	Corpus and Discourse
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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

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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xiii

1 Introduction. Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports: Texts, Media, Modalities Marcus Callies Magnus Levin 1

Part I Texts. Contrastive and Comparative Aspects of the Phraseology of Football Match Reports

2 Formulaic Language and Text Routines in Football Live Text Commentaries and Match Reports - A Cross- and Corpus-linguistic Approach Simon Meier 13

3 The Language of Football Match Reports in a Contrastive Perspective Signe Oksefjell Ebeling 37

4 Lexical Features of Football Reports: Computer- vs. Human-mediated Language Rita Jukneviciené Paulius Viluckas 63

Part II Media. Expanding the Scope of Research to New Contexts of Use

5 Such a Nice Guy Who Loved Racing His Bike: Framing in Media Accounts of Fatal Crashes Involving Competitive Cyclists Turn Hiltunen 87

6 When Did I Do Dangerous Driving Then?: Structures and Functions of Formula One Race Radio Messages Jukka Tyrkkö Hanna Limatius 111

7 The Emotional Content of English Swearwords in Football Chatspeak: WTF and Other Pragmatic Devices Isabel Balteiro 139

8 Fighting for Integrity against a Corrupting Disease: The Legal Metaphors of Sports Fraud Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos 161

Part III Modalities. Multimodal Studies

9 A Multimodal Analysis of Football Live Text Commentary Valentin Werner 183

10 'Fear and Disgust' - A Corpus Study of Sentiment towards Sporting Events as Expressed Multimodally on 4chan's/sp/board Peter Crosthwaite Joyce Cheung 219

11 A Comparative Multimodal Corpus Study of Dislocation Structures in Live Football Commentary Marcus Callies Magnus Levin 253

Index 270

Editorial Reviews

The editors of the book, Marcus Callies and Magnus Levin, have assembled a fascinating collection of work addressing an intersection of language and context that is of itself a growing area of interest for linguists.” —Human Kinetics

“[The book] offers innovative empirical studies that use new corpus resources to showcase the structural-linguistic and discourse aspects of a wide range of sports (e.g. football, cycling, motor racing), genres (e.g. live commentary, post-match reports, legal texts) and contexts of use (e.g. sports media, in-team communication). Considering the pioneering investigations involved in each chapter, the volume is especially impressive in its exploratory nature and rich implications for future research.” —LINGUIST

“[T]his is an excellent contribution to scholarly research around mental health.” —Jourbanal of Corpora and Discourse Studies

“An innovative, multifaceted collection going beyond current trends: studying English in comparison with other languages, investigating football and various other sports, studying metaphors, phraseology and many other aspects, analysing not only match reports and live text commentaries, but also a series of internet genres just emerging, with new variants of multimodality and language mixing – rich, profound, and inspiring!” —Eva Lavric, Professor of Romance Linguistics, Innsbruck University, Austria

“This comprehensive volume is among the first to focus on the language of sports, covering a wide range of topics from discussions in race car cockpits to online fan commentaries, which are analysed from equally diverse linguistic perspectives. A highly recommended read for anyone interested in the cultural, social and linguistic aspects of sports.” —Tuomo Hiippala, Assistant Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Finland

“This is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning collection of linguistic research on mediated sports discourse. The editors have to be congratulated for preparing a fascinating book that will prove to be indispensable to scholars and students in linguistics, media studies and communication, as well as to anybody else interested in sports, language and communication.” —Jan Chovanec, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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