The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports

✍ Scribed by Stephanie Schnurr; Kieran File (editors)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Series: Language and Social Life [LSL]; 26
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Approaching issues of inclusion and exclusion in sports through language
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
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
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
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
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
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