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Iconic Sports Venues - Persuasion in Public Spaces

English · Hardback

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From the Colosseum of Rome to Wrigley Field and Madison Square Garden, iconic sports venues are larger than life. They often exist in a seemingly "sacred" space, outside the hustle and bustle of the everyday. At their most basic level, iconic sports venues are revered and idolized. They emanate a sense of persuasion that contributes to how they become meaningful for those who come into contact with them.
This book examines how and why iconic sports venues acquire meaning. Looking at different venues, chapters address how the material features of a site participate in the construction of messages and meanings, and how they influence those messages and meanings. Each chapter includes a description of the venue in question; an interpretation of its mystique; and a discussion of the implications of the interpretation.
A unique and timely contribution to the fields of composition, persuasion, sport management, sport rhetoric, and communication, the goal of this book is to inspire more scholarly research, essays, and projects focused on the persuasive qualities of sports venues. More broadly, scholars, students, and professionals can use the chapters in this book as models for investigating "iconic" structures both locally and globally.

About the author










Danielle Johannesen (Ph.D., University of South Dakota) is Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Minnesota Crookston. Her critical and creative work has appeared in The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture; Brevity; South Dakota Review; and Midwestern Gothic, among others.
Mark E. Huglen (Ph.D., Wayne State University) is Professor of Communication at the University of Minnesota Crookston. He has received multiple awards, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success. He has written numerous articles and books.

Summary

This book examines how and why iconic sports venues acquire meaning. Looking at different venues, chapters address how the material features of a site participate in the construction of messages and meanings, and how they influence those messages and meanings.

Product details

Assisted by Mark Huglen (Editor), Mark E. Huglen (Editor), Danielle Johannesen (Editor), Johannesen Danielle (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.02.2017
 
EAN 9781433131608
ISBN 978-1-4331-3160-8
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 150 mm x 17 mm x 225 mm
Weight 430 g
Illustrations 13 Abb.
Subjects Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches

Sport, sports, Persuasion, Mark, Communication, Public, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, Criticism, history of sport, Spaces, iconic, Rhetoric, Danielle, Sports management & facilities, Sports management and facilities, Huglen, Venues, Venue, Johannesen

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