Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction. Corpus approaches to the language of sports: texts, media, modalities, Marcus Callies (University of Bremen, Germany) and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
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 (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
3. The language of football match reports in a contrastive perspective, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway)
4. Lexical features of football reports: computer- vs. human-mediated language, Rita Jukneviciene (Vilnius University, Lithuania) and Paulius Viluckas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
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, Turo Hiltunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
6. "When did I do dangerous driving then?": structures and functions of Formula One race radio messages, Jukka Tyrkkö (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and Hanna Limatius (University of Tampere, Finland)
7. The emotional content of English swearwords in football chatspeak: WTF and other pragmatic devices, Isabel Balteiro (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
8. Fighting for integrity against a corrupting disease: the legal metaphors of sports fraud, Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Part III. Modalities. Multimodal studies
9. A multimodal analysis of football live text commentary, Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany)
10. 'Fear and disgust' - A corpus study of sentiment towards sporting events as expressed multimodally on 4chan's /sp/ board, Peter Crosthwaite (University of Queensland, Australia) and Joyce Cheung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
11. A comparative multi-modal corpus study of dislocation structures in live football commentary, Marcus Callies (University of Bremen, Germany) and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
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