The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports

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The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports

Edited by: Stephanie Schnurr and Kieran File

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 26 | Language and Social Life [LSL]

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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.

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

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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Approaching issues of inclusion and exclusion in sports through language
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Stephanie Schnurr and Kieran File

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Part I: Creating inclusion/exclusion in authentic interaction
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Chapter 1 ‘Dribble dribble dribble! Dribbling is the most elementary in football’: Doing inclusion in park-based children’s sport
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Frances Rock

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Chapter 2 #StillWeRise: The sociolinguistics of race, inequalities, and athlete activist identities in Formula 1 social media
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Ozde Ozinanir and Louise Mullany

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Chapter 3 Do collective pronouns construct inclusive coach-athlete relations?
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Kieran File, Stephanie Schnurr, Amanda Coulson and Alan Rapley

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Chapter 4 Constructing inclusive team management structures: Evidence of multiparty participation in the leadership of a university basketball team
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Anastasia Stavridou and Kieran File

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Chapter 5 Banter as a tactic of inclusion in sports organizations
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Fergus O’Dwyer

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Chapter 6 “Sisters are hot”. Denying netball players their athletic identities through sexualisation practices in online fan groups in Malawi
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Rachel Chimbwete-Phiri and Stephanie Schnurr

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Part II: Inclusion/exclusion in the sports media. The representation of female and transgender athletes
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Chapter 7 Good girls and bad boys? A corpus analysis of gendered discourses in Australian media coverage of “masculine” team sports
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Melissa Kemble

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Chapter 8 From “the National Pride” to “the Daughters”: Media representations of Olympic sportswomen in Turkey
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Yasemin Erdoğan-Öztürk, Esranur Efeoğlu-Özcan and Hale Işık-Güler

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Chapter 9 “Fairness versus inclusion”: Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports
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Aimee Bailey and Lucy Jones

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Part III: Reflecting on the language of inclusion and exclusion by athletes and coaches
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Chapter 10 Within binaries instead of beyond? The discursive (self-)exclusion of young female football players from football as a male and masculine space
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Eva-Maria Graf and Melanie Fleischhacker

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Chapter 11 A critical examination of homo-negative language use and the pragmatics of inclusion and exclusion of gay rugby players
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Richard Pringle and Erik Denison

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Chapter 12 “Ha ha ha you don’t cover you aurat”: Exploring modesty, prayer, and Malaysian Muslim women gymnasts’ experience of inclusion and/or exclusion
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Farhana Abdul Fatah

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Chapter 13 Putting inclusion into practice: A sociolinguistic lens on institutional practices for establishing an inclusive sports organisation
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Kieran File, Stephanie Schnurr and Stuart Cain

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Chapter 14 Bringing everything together: Considering the role of language in effecting inclusion and exclusion in sport
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Kieran File and Stephanie Schnurr

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List of contributors
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Index
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eBook published on:

November 20, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783110789829

Hardcover published on:

November 20, 2023

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110789768

Paperback published on:

June 30, 2025

Paperback ISBN:

9783112214190

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Front matter:

12

Main content:

328

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2

Coloured Illustrations:

9

Tables:

16

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789829

eBook ISBN: 9783110789829

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110789768

Paperback ISBN: 9783112214190

Keywords for this book

Sports; Language; Inclusion; Exclusion

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Researchers in Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics; Sports Practitioners; Sports Bodies

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The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Approaching issues of inclusion and exclusion in sports through language

Chapter 1 ‘Dribble dribble dribble! Dribbling is the most elementary in football’: Doing inclusion in park-based children’s sport

Chapter 2 #StillWeRise: The sociolinguistics of race, inequalities, and athlete activist identities in Formula 1 social media

Chapter 3 Do collective pronouns construct inclusive coach-athlete relations?

Chapter 4 Constructing inclusive team management structures: Evidence of multiparty participation in the leadership of a university basketball team

Chapter 5 Banter as a tactic of inclusion in sports organizations

Chapter 6 “Sisters are hot”. Denying netball players their athletic identities through sexualisation practices in online fan groups in Malawi

Chapter 7 Good girls and bad boys? A corpus analysis of gendered discourses in Australian media coverage of “masculine” team sports

Chapter 8 From “the National Pride” to “the Daughters”: Media representations of Olympic sportswomen in Turkey

Chapter 9 “Fairness versus inclusion”: Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports

Chapter 10 Within binaries instead of beyond? The discursive (self-)exclusion of young female football players from football as a male and masculine space

Chapter 11 A critical examination of homo-negative language use and the pragmatics of inclusion and exclusion of gay rugby players

Chapter 12 “Ha ha ha you don’t cover you aurat”: Exploring modesty, prayer, and Malaysian Muslim women gymnasts’ experience of inclusion and/or exclusion

Chapter 13 Putting inclusion into practice: A sociolinguistic lens on institutional practices for establishing an inclusive sports organisation

Chapter 14 Bringing everything together: Considering the role of language in effecting inclusion and exclusion in sport

List of contributors

Index

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