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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Approaching issues of inclusion and exclusion in sports through language Stephanie Schnurr and Kieran File Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Creating inclusion/exclusion in authentic interaction
Chapter 1 ‘Dribble dribble dribble! Dribbling is the most elementary in football’: Doing inclusion in park-based children’s sport Frances Rock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Chapter 2 #StillWeRise: The sociolinguistics of race, inequalities, and athlete activist identities in Formula 1 social media Ozde Ozinanir and Louise Mullany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Chapter 3 Do collective pronouns construct inclusive coach-athlete relations? Kieran File, Stephanie Schnurr, Amanda Coulson and Alan Rapley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Chapter 4 Constructing inclusive team management structures: Evidence of multiparty participation in the leadership of a university basketball team Anastasia Stavridou and Kieran File Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Chapter 5 Banter as a tactic of inclusion in sports organizations Fergus O’Dwyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Chapter 6 “Sisters are hot”. Denying netball players their athletic identities through sexualisation practices in online fan groups in Malawi Rachel Chimbwete-Phiri and Stephanie Schnurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Part II: Inclusion/exclusion in the sports media. The representation of female and transgender athletes
Chapter 7 Good girls and bad boys? A corpus analysis of gendered discourses in Australian media coverage of “masculine” team sports Melissa Kemble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
Chapter 8 From “the National Pride” to “the Daughters”: Media representations of Olympic sportswomen in Turkey Yasemin Erdoğan-Öztürk, Esranur Efeoğlu-Özcan and Hale Işık-Güler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Chapter 9 “Fairness versus inclusion”: Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports Aimee Bailey and Lucy Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Part III: Reflecting on the language of inclusion and exclusion by athletes and coaches
Chapter 10 Within binaries instead of beyond? The discursive (self-)exclusion of young female football players from football as a male and masculine space Eva-Maria Graf and Melanie Fleischhacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Chapter 11 A critical examination of homo-negative language use and the pragmatics of inclusion and exclusion of gay rugby players Richard Pringle and Erik Denison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
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 Farhana Abdul Fatah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Chapter 13 Putting inclusion into practice: A sociolinguistic lens on institutional practices for establishing an inclusive sports organisation Kieran File, Stephanie Schnurr and Stuart Cain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Chapter 14 Bringing everything together: Considering the role of language in effecting inclusion and exclusion in sport Kieran File and Stephanie Schnurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327

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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

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

12

Main content:

328

Illustrations:

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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