Language in Sport - Real-Time Talk in Training and Games

This collection showcases the language of "doing" sport, emphasizing the real-time talk of players and coaches during training and games toward elucidating real-time language use and encouraging effective sporting pedagogies.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Sports Linguistics: Speaking and Doing - Andrew S. Ross, David Caldwell and Y. J. Doran
Chapter 2: The "Other" Side of Leadership: Unpacking Leadership and Followership Performance through Linguistics in a University Basketball Team - Anastasia Stavridou
Chapter 3: Discursively Regulating Driver Emotions during Live Formula 1 Racing Events: An Emotion Regulation Interpretation of Time-Gap Information Messages - Kieran File
Chapter 4: The Lexicon of Team-Based Spoken Rugby Discourse - Stuart Benson
Chapter 5: Socialisation and Organisation: The Language and Discourse within Cycling Group Rides - Andrew S. Ross
Chapter 6: Ambigious Person Reference in Coach Talk: How New Zealand Rugby Coaches Mediate the Directness of their Player-Directed Speech through the Use of Pronouns, Personal Names and Familiar Address Terms - Nick Wilson
Chapter 7: Mic'd up and Mentoring: A Discourse Analysis of Mediatised Coach Discourse - David Caldwell
Chapter 8: Demarcating Information: Setting up Drills and Giving Instructions in Sport - Y. J. Doran and Lilián Ariztimuño
Chapter 9: The Coach-Athlete Communication Interface at an Australian Ski Racing Club: Coaching Styles and Coach Communication in Ski Racing - John Lyle, Ian Renshaw and John Williams
Chapter 10: Toward Language-based Pedagogies for In-Game Communications in Youth Level Sport - Ian Sherwin, Fergus O'Dwyer and Sally McCarthy
Chapter 11: Developing Behaviour and Beliefs in Ballet - Elena Lambrinos
Chapter 12: Language in Sport: Wherefore and Where to? - Y. J. Doran, David Caldwell and Andrew S. Ross
Index

About the author

Andrew S. Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Canberra
David Caldwell is Associate Professor in English Language and Literacy at the University of South Australia
Y. J. Doran is Associate Professor in English Language and Literacy at the Australian Catholic University.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew S. Caldwell Ross
• Assisted by: David Caldwell (Editor), Y.J. Doran (Editor), Andrew Ross (Editor), Andrew S. Ross (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032583914
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258391-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sports training and coaching, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Sports and Active outdoor recreation