The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball - Semantics, Style, and Terminology

The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology draws on nearly 6,000 published MLB game summaries to explore the contours of baseball terminology in Spanish. Organized in a logical sequence that corresponds to various aspects of baseball (field of play, player positions, getting on base, types and modes of hits, scoring, runs-batted-in, umpire involvement and calls, pitching, and defense), the work combines narrative style and illustrative examples with keen lexical analysis. The result is an entertaining and informative volume that is neither folksy nor linguistically overcomplicated.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - Why a Vocabulary for el Béisbol?
Chapter 2 - Dictionaries, Data, Words, and Meanings
Chapter 3 - Getting Started: Equipment, Field, and Player Positions
Chapter 4 - Hits and Other Ways to Get on Base
Chapter 5 - Home Runs
Chapter 6 - Grounders, Liners, and Fly Balls
Chapter 7 - Hitting the Ball: The Crack of the Bat
Chapter 8 - Runners on Base, Scoring, and RBI's
Chapter 9 - Pitchers and Pitching
Chapter 10 - Innings and Outs (and Getting it Right)
Chapter 11 - Defense
Chapter 12 - Style: In the Game and in the Story

Product details

• Authors: John M. Chaston, Robert N. Smead
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2022
• EAN: 9781498591225
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9122-5
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Illustrations: 33 Tables
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Baseball, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography, Lexicography, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc