The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports

Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations. This book explores how language use patterns by athletes, coaches, sports fans, and the sports media can create or impede inclusion. Issues of in/exclusion in a range of sports and a variety of socio-cultural contexts are explored, raising important questions for practitioners about how to address matters of in/exclusion that are evident in everyday language use.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Stephanie Schnurr and Kieran File, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations. This book explores how language use patterns by athletes, coaches, sports fans, and the sports media can create or impede inclusion. Issues of in/exclusion in a range of sports and a variety of socio-cultural contexts are explored, raising important questions for practitioners about how to address matters of in/exclusion that are evident in everyday language use.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: File (Herausgeber), Kieran File (Herausgeber), Stephanie Schnurr (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9783112214190
• ISBN: 978-3-11-221419-0
• Seiten: 328
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 20 mm x 230 mm
• Gewicht: 506 g
• Illustration: 2 b/w and 9 col. ill., 16 b/w tbl.
• Serie: Language and Social Life [LSL]
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; sports, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Language, Linguistics, Inklusion, Exklusion, Inclusion, Exclusion, Sport und Sprache