Sociology: sport and leisure Books

Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association ’s Communication and Sport Division. The book provides a descriptive analysis of the social interaction transpiring in what the author has conceptualized as the “the hyper-mediated marketplace of sports narratives.” It examines the social structures and processes that make sports-talk radio such a vibrant societal milieu, and seeks to identify the essential sociological dynamics that make all that endless chatter so vital to listeners. A qualitative, descriptive analytical focus on this remarkable platform—where people come together to interact insistently, colorfully, and often with stunning ferocity—highlights key processes by which human communicators construct meaning.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why the Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio Matters2. National Sports Talk3. More Intensity in Major Regional Talk4. Small Talk and a Perfect Example of Contested Narratives5. Talk From Beyond the Male Gaze6. Conclusion: What Matters Most Sociologically

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume considers the U.S.-Mexico soccer rivalry, which occurs against a complex geo-political, social, and economic backdrop. Multidisciplinary contributions explore how a long and complicated history between these countries has produced a unique rivalry—one in which loyalties split friends and family; fan turnout in many regions of the U.S. favors Mexico; and games are imbued with both national pride and politics. The themes of nationhood, geography, citizenship, acculturation, identity, globalization, narrative and mythology reverberate throughout this book, especially with regard to how they shape place, identity, and culture.Table of ContentsSection 1: Nation and Citizenship1. The Border War for Young Mexican American Soccer Players: How Family and National Identity Play Out on the Field 2. Women’s Soccer in Mexico: A Unique Spin on the Rivalry with the United States3. Place, Nation and the U.S.-Mexico Soccer Rivalry: Dual Citizens, Home Stadiums, and Hosting the Gold CupSection 2: Media and Representation4. A Resistance to Rivalry: The U.S.-Mexico Soccer Matchup Through the Eyes of Mexican Sports Journalists, 1934-20135. Gendered Nations: Media Representations of the Men’s and Women’s U.S.-Mexico Soccer Rivalry5. Mexico “on Top:” Queering Masculinity in Contemporary Mexican Soccer ChroniclesSection 3: Mythology and Symbols7. Place, Memory, and Myth in Dos-A-Cero8. An (Im)penetrable Fortress: The Mythology of Estadio Azteca in the U.S.-Mexico Men’s National Team Soccer Rivalry9. Picturing a Rivalry: Nationhood, Soccer, and Contemporary ArtSection 4: Fans and Fandom10. Food-ball: Tailgates that Enculturate before U.S.-Mexico Fútbol Matches11. Global Fútbol, the Masked Fan and Flat Screen Arenas: Mexican Soccer Communities in the United States and the Genesis of the Tricolor Brand in Global Landscapes, 1970-201212. Bicultural Stress, Soccer and Rivalry: How Mexican-Americans Experience the Soccer Competition Between Their Two Countries

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Book SynopsisEd Aarons is a sports journalist for The Guardian who has been an expert on African football for more than a decade. Born in Croydon, south London in 1981, he fell in love with it while watching a Roger Milla-inspired Cameroon lose to England in the quarter-final of the 1990 World Cup. He has built a reputation for being one of the best of the new generation of football journalists in the country, with particularly close links to African players in the Premier League.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1978, this book was one of the first to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.Trade ReviewA pioneering work in a field remarkably little touched... For any future writer about the philosophy or the sociology of sport in general, this book will be required reading. -- Julian Symons Times Literary Supplement The chief advantage that Guttmann has over other sports theoreticians is a willingness to employ the techniques of modern rhetoric in creating some order out of the ideological confusion now swirling around his subject. He is a definer, a synthesizer, a causal analyst, as well as an arguer and a counter-arguer. Virginia Quarterly [Guttmann's] lucid, original, stimulating, blessedly jargon-free book does something to lighten our darkness. His pleasant, incisive style reflects a mind uncluttered by prejudice or ideology. -- Brian Glanville London Sunday TimesTable of ContentsPlay, Games, Contests, SportsFrom Ritual to RecordCapitalism, Protestantism, and Modern SportWhy Baseball Was Our National GameThe Fascination of FootballIndividualism ReconsideredConclusionAfterword. From Ritual to Record: A Retrospective Critique

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRonojoy Sen has produced a fascinating, rich, and thoroughly engaging history of sport in India. He manages to paint at once with powerful, evocative, and very convincing broad strokes and with the finely gauged brush of an ethno-historian concerned as much with the intricacies and nuances of embodied experience as with quirky personalities and the odd politics of everyday life. All of this adds up to a book that fully captures the imagination to generate deep and often unexpected insight on the serious business of play in modern India. -- Joseph S. Alter, Yale-NUS College, author of The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India His ambitious book examines Indian sports in a largely chronological manner and does not duck the more awkward questions, such as the perceived athletic limitations of Indians. The narrative has an attractive sweep to it, starting with the place of sports and martial competition in Hindu epics such as the "Mahabharata" and the "Ramayana." Wall Street Journal Rich in detail and nuanced in terms of analysis... [Ronojoy Sen] is to be praised for adding to the understanding of sport in India by looking at how it intersects with culture and politics, and for using sport to provide insights about Indian history and society. Choice Sen is to be applauded for writing such an ambitious book, enriching our understanding of the history of sport in India. Journal of Sport HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Down the Ages: Sport in Ancient and Medieval India 2. Empire of Sport: The Early British Impact on Recreation 3. White Man's Burden: Teachers, Missionaries, and Administrators 4. Players and Patrons: Indian Princes and Sports 5. The Empire Strikes Back: The 1911 IFA Shield and Football in Calcutta 6. Politics on the Maidan: Sport, Communalism, and Nationalism 7. The Early Olympics: India's Hockey Triumphs 8. Lords of the Ring: Tales of Wrestlers and Boxers 9. Freedom Games: The First Two Decades of Independence 10. Domestic Sports: State, Club, Office, and Regiment (1947-1970) 11. 1971 and After: The Religion Called Cricket 12. Life Beyond Cricket Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAt the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Great Britain ranked thirty-sixth in the medals table, finishing below countries like Algeria, Belgium and Kazakhstan. It was their worst ever record, a dismal performance labelled a national disgrace.But then something happened. In Sydney in 2000 and then Athens in 2004, Team GB achieved a much more respectable tenth place. BY 2008, in Beijing, they finished fourth with forty-seven medals. How had they so convincingly reversed their fortunes?In Game Changers we meet the incredible coaches who rethink how sport is played, how it is performed, how people train and how people coach. In Liverpool in the late 1980s, a motley group - a mathematician, a physiologist, a psychologist and a former Olympic basketball player - began to pioneer ways of tracking performance. Over the decades that followed, performance analysis came of age. Incredible technological leaps have led to devices such as the OptimEye S5, developed by two Australian m

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Book SynopsisThrough the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.Trade Review“An extraordinary volume…. Not only is the writing empirically driven, but, more importantly, the theoretic content is grounded in prose that is fresh, vibrant, and something not always associated with what is a university textbook, fascinating. Cleveland, Kaur, and Akindes are to be congratulated for putting together a team that explores complex identities and the dynamic nature of African sport…. Hats off to the Ohio University Press for not only supporting the venture but publishing a book that looks like, and reads like, a classic.” * Journal of Sport History *“A long-overdue project by scholars committed to building African sports studies as a humanities subject. It presents close studies of sports like cycling, surfing, track and field, ultra-marathoning, and weightlifting, which are often neglected in favor of bigger and more popular sports such as soccer, rugby, and cricket. Scholars of social history, nationalism, popular culture, social anthropology, media, and cultural studies will appreciate this book.”“The Sport in Africa collective, active since 2004, has helped kick-start a movement. Here it adds seventeen more topics to the growing corpus of works on African sports history—from surfers in Transkei and women in Nigeria to Kenyan athletes and the football migrations to Europe (happening alongside desperate refugee journeys in the Mediterranean)—showing what a rich field of study sport is becoming.”“Sports in Africa heralds the arrival in sports studies of an empirically rich, theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and incisive African-focused genre. The volume demonstrates the centrality and complexity of sport in the daily rhythms and social fabric of life on the continent, across time, and in the formal and informal economies. It challenges longstanding racial, ethnic and cultural stereotypes pertaining to Africans, and dispenses with any notion of fixed and prescribed social and cultural identities.”“This collection of essays opens up the debate on the influences of social history, subaltern studies, and postmodernism in stimulating new research and pedagogical approaches to sport studies in Africa. It offers exemplary studies of mainstream sports (athletics, cricket, football, and rugby) and those on the margins (cycling, surfing, and wrestling) and reflects on the contributions and trajectories of those sporting pasts and their present impacts and meanings across the African continent. A go-to volume for those seeking a solid introduction to the politics, poetics and practices of the fascinating life-worlds of sports in Africa.”

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Book SynopsisYes, we gave Germany, France, Argentina, Brazil, and all the rest, football, and this is the first book to explore how

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Book SynopsisThere is a looming existential crisis for competitive sport. We are witnessing a waning trust in the integrity of sport at all levels that stems from the win-at-all-costs culture that has become so pervasive, worldwide. Doping, fraud, corruption and inhumane high-performance systems as well as worrying levels of dropout, burnout and mental health problems among athletes, all points to the fact that sport has lost track of its true meaning and is increasingly out of touch with its core values. What is needed is a powerful counterpoint to this results-focussed culture, one which goes far deeper than the superficial realm of wins, losses, medals and fame, and that provides a roadmap for athletes to discover deeper meaning and achieve more in their sporting lives. The True Athlete Philosophy is that counterpoint. This is an approach that harnesses the best of sport - the persistent drive for excellence, constant innovation, unmatched opportunities for personal development - and puts it firmly in service of the participants and society as a whole. Sport can be a tremendous tool for unlocking potential and thriving in life, but currently it is not coming close to delivering on that promise. Drawing on a combination of ancient wisdom and modern psychology, The True Athlete Philosophy explores how athletes can harness their lived experience of sport to contribute to a healthy, meaningful and fulfilled life and be of greater benefit to their community.Table of ContentsPart 1. Introducing the True Athlete Philosophy 1. The Burning Platform What Use is a Philosophical Framework? Introducing the True Athlete Philosophy Higher Purpose of Sport Definition of a True Athlete Part 2. The Virtues of the True Athlete Philosophy 2. Treat yourself and others with compassion 3. Live with integrity 4. Acknowledge and embrace responsibility for your own journey and that of your community 5. Grow your awareness in the present moment and of what truly matters in life Part 3. Mental-Emotional Strategies and Practices for Cultivating the True Athlete Virtues 6. Introduction and Mindfulness Meditation 7. The Athlete Identity -Knowing your core values and how to live them -Embrace vulnerability 8. The Stoic Approach -The controllables - preparation, effort, attitude -Acceptance and defusion -Gratitude 9. Love and Connection -Developing self-compassion -Love vs fear reframing -The power of nature connectedness 10. Reflection and Conclusion -Reflection -Create a personal motto, credo or oath -Final Thoughts

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Book SynopsisYoung People, Leisure and Place reports on cross-cultural research into the personal geographies of young people. It explores young people''s leisure and recreational pursuits, including favourite places, and.offers a tentative theory of adolescent thinking and development. The major themes explored are the impact of globalisation on young people, their reference systems and their use of private and public spaces. Evidence is presented of global, national and local dimensions of growing up in different countries in a post-modern world. The book contributes to a better understanding of issues of contemporary citizenship in a globalised world where the commodification of knowledge blurs boundaries and values. Effective citizenship in a world of time-space compression and instant access to diverse sources of information is problematic. This book provides a fascinating insight into the discerning values of young people. As they reveal their hopes and dreams within the knowledge society, the young people involved in this cross-cultural enquiry also highlight their conservatism and the traditional core values associated with their homes and families.

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Book SynopsisThe Greek philosopher Aristotle first suggested the earth could be divided into types of climatic zones, based on their distance from the equator. The region nearest the equator was termed the Torrid Zone and was considered uninhabitable. However, almost half of the world''s population now live, exercise and regularly compete in this Torrid Zone, which in modern times, we recognise as the tropics. This book is the first text to report the mechanisms, interventions, implications and practical considerations of sport, exercise and physical activity in the tropics. Tropical conditions impose a unique blend of challenges to human physical performance and these areas are thoroughly interrogated in this monograph. Pertinent commentaries of physiology, behaviour, sports and physical activity considerations in hot, humid, tropical conditions are provided. These are additionally supported by peer-reviewed cutting edge research articles to maximise performance in the tropics.

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Book SynopsisExercise is one component of daily energy expenditure in humans. It has become an important part of healthy lifestyles, because individuals are less active both at work and at home compared to earlier days and because today''s environment makes it easy for individuals to be inactive, such as when people use elevators instead of stairs, cars instead of bicycles, and technology instead of activities with full body movement. This book discusses the types and methods of exercise training, as well as the role it plays in disease prevention.

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Book SynopsisOvercoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey’s culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features both personal and scholarly accounts of agents of change—people, ideas, and events—that confront the challenges associated with making hockey a more inclusive space. By exposing assumptions about hockey culture, Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap opens up critical discussions of previously underexplored topics as they relate to the women’s game, Indigenous participation, viable career pathways, masculine identities, hockey parents, mental health, and social media. This is a book for fans, players, organizers, and researchers alike. Contributors: Angie Abdou, Kieran Block, Cam Braes, William Bridel, Judy Davidson, Jonathon R.J. Edwards, Catherine Houston, Colin D. Howell, Chelsey H. Leahy, Roger G. LeBlanc, Cheryl A. MacDonald, Fred Mason, Brock McGillis, Vicky Paraschak, Brett Pardy, Ann Pegoraro, Kyle A. Rich, Tavis Smith, Noah UnderwoodTrade ReviewCheryl A. MacDonald: "I hope readers take away an understanding that a lot of people experience hockey differently than we might often think. I think that sometimes folks take for granted that hockey brings Canadians together and that Canadians all have the same experience through their participation in hockey..." Sean Hatchard, Times & Transcript, January 11, 2022"While the collection skews academic, personal stories and interviews make the book appealing and accessible for casual readers, showcasing the inclusivity the book is championing..... Though it offers no easy answers, the book gives its agents of change a rare chance to break through the defence to their goal." -- Bruce Cinnamon * Alberta Views Magazine, May 2022 *Table of ContentsPreface Cheryl A. MacDonald and Jonathon R.J. Edwards Acknowledgements I Challenging Hockey’s Norms 1 The Forgotten Canadian League: The Voices of U SPORTS Men’s Hockey Players and the Legitimacy of University Hockey in Canada Cameron Braes and Jonathon R.J. Edwards 2 Karl Subban & Me: The Parents Take on Hockey Culture Angie Abdou 3 “I want justice and more”: Loreto, Carcillo, and Dominant Narratives of Hockey Culture on Twitter Catherine Houston, Kyle Rich, Tavis Smith, and Ann Pegoraro 4 Hockey Talks: Mental Health Faces off against the “Green Lantern” Mentality Brett Pardy II Access and Support 5 “We have to work for it. For everything. Absolutely everything.”: An Examination of the Gendered Structure of Ice Hockey in U SPORTS Chelsey Leahy 6 #BeBoldForChange: The 2017 US Women’s National Hockey Team Player Boycott, Twitter, and (Neo)Liberal Feminism Noah Underwood and Judy Davidson 7 Desirable Disability: My Journey from Upright Hockey to Sledge Hockey, and Back Again Kieran Block with Cheryl A. MacDonald 8 Skating toward Reconciliation: A “Survivance” History of Indigenous Peoples in Hockey in Canada Vicky Paraschak III Masculinity and Sexuality 9 Uncovering the Conspiracy of Silence of Gay Hockey Players in the NHL Roger G. LeBlanc 10 “I never thought I’d get here, I thought I’d be dead.”: An In-depth Interview with an Openly Gay Former Professional Ice Hockey Player Cheryl A. MacDonald and Brock McGillis 11 “What do you mean you don’t play hockey…you a queer or somethin’?”: Reflections on Life as a Non-Hockey Playing Canadian Boy William Bridel 12 The Tragedy of the Enforcer in Lynn Coady’s The Antagonist and Jeff Lemire’s Roughneck Fred Mason Afterword Colin D. Howell Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis anthology of essays, previously published in Olympika: The International Centre for Olympic Studies, addresses key themes in the scholarly study of the Games. Part I presents seven articles devoted to Olympic history: the Games'' legacy from antiquity, their modern evolution, and the most controversial Games of the modern era, the Berlin Games of 1936. Part II deals with the persistent problems and crises that confounded and defined the Olympic Games over time. The nine essays in this section focus on a variety of issues such as: performance enhancement; the rise of commercialism; enduring controversies in the form of leadership, corruption, and the Cold War; and the politics of hosting Olympic Games. Finally, in Part III, the future of the Modern Olympic Movement is addressed from the perspective of the rapidly accelerating and mushrooming process of globalisation.

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Book SynopsisThis provocative collection brings together some of the leading historians, sociologists, political scientists, and cultural theorists on an ambitious range of topics dealing with sport, diversity and difference. The book is both diverse and inclusive, for it considered race, ethnicity and aboriginality in tandem; too often these themes are segmented into separate studies. The collection features vibrant examples from different eras, places and spaces -- wherein co-themes like post-colonialism, gender and media representation are embedded.

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between tourism studies and aging studies. It investigates the intersections of tourism and aging from a variety of perspectives that focus on the many ways in which senior tourism is socially constructed and/or individually experienced. The essays tackle key topics ranging from the socio-economic aspects of post-retirement travel to the representations of the traveling elderly in literature, film and media, and the influence of travel on late-life creativity.

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Book SynopsisThe same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries rise about addiction, violence, education, time, and economy. Yet, these concerns vary depending upon where they are situated: in families, legal contexts, industry or science. They also play out differently across countries and cultures. This situated nature of computer game concerns is generally neglected. Not in this book: It gives a detailed mosaic of the complex and multiple everyday realities of computer game concerns in relation to children, as they are variably situated throughout society and across cultures.Trade ReviewBesprochen in CHOICE, 56, 6 (2019)

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Book SynopsisThe inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. Is the tightly-knit subculture in danger of losing its very identity? This anthology creates an analytical framework for understanding the fundamental conflict between skateboarding's core ethos and the tenets of institutionalized sports. Eleven acclaimed international authors from the fields of architecture, philosophy, sociology, sports sciences and gender studies provide a unique perspective on the manifold manifestations of skateboarding previously ignored by academic discourse.

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Book SynopsisAnalysis of sports shows how societal values influence behavior and beliefs in sports roles, leading to conflicts and adaptational challenges. Dr. Dinesh Chandra Lal explores various aspects of sports as a social institution, including racism, economics, and integration.

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Book SynopsisVery little research exists on organisation and leadership of elite sports in the Nordic countries. This book is both an attempt to start filling this gap and to stimulate further research in the area.

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Book SynopsisJOHN HORNE teaches in the Scottish Centre for P.E., Sport and Leisure Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. Previous books include Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (co-edited, Routledge, 1987), Work and Unemployment (Longman, 1988) and Understanding Sport (co-authored, Spon, 1999).

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Table of Contents.Preface The Ball is Round Stanislao G. Pugliese.-.Introduction Marking the Field Brenda Elsey.-.Art Criticism.-.Chapter 1 Drawing the Foul: Diving and Visuality in Contemporary English Football Luke Healey.-.Chapter 2 From Galáctico to Head Butt: Globalization, Immigration and the Politics of Identity in Artistic Representations of Zidane Daniel Haxall .-.Collective Psychology and Group Identity.-.Chapter 3 Soccer in the Shadow of Death: Propaganda and Survival in the Nazi Ghetto-Camp of Terezín Kevin E. Simpson.-.Chapter 4 In the Shadow of the State: The National Team and the Politics of National Identity in Spain Jim O’Brien.-.Political Science and International Relations.-.Chapter 5 Beyond the Unfulfilled Promise of Soviet International Football, 1945-1991 Mauricio Borrero.-.Chapter 6 Post-Colonial Outcomes: FIFA, Overseas Territory, and National Identity Steve Menary.-.Chapter 7 The Hermit Kingdom vs. the World: North Korea in the 2010 World Cup Aaron D. Horton.-.Race and Ethnic Studies.-.Chapter 8 Fausto dos Santos: The Wonders and Challenges of Blackness in Brazil’s “Mulatto Football” Roger Kittleson.-.Chapter 9 Who Counts As a Real American? Dual Citizenship, Hybridity, and the U.S. Men’s National Team Jon D. Bohland.-.Sexuality and Gender.-.Chapter 10 Social Climbing, Cultural Experimentation and Trailblazing the Metrosexual: Franz Beckenbauer in the 1960s and 1970s Kay Schiller.-.Chapter 11 Standing on Honeyball’s Shoulders: A History of Independent Women’s Football Clubs in England Jean Williams.-.The State and Civil Society.-.Chapter 12 Politics, Power and Soccer in Postwar Italy: The Case of Naples Rosario Forlenza.-.Chapter 13 The Politics of Football in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone Tamba E. M’bayo.-.Chapter 14 The Competitive Party: The Formation and Crisis of Organized Fan Groups in Brazil, 1950-1980 Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda.-.Philosophy and Critical Theory.-.Chapter 15 “Another World (Cup) is Possible!” Twenty Theses about Modern Football Tim Walters.-.Chapter 16 On Virtue, Irony and Glory: The Pitch and the People Jason Burke Murphy.

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Book SynopsisMarcus Callies is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany.Magnus Levin is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Linnaeus University, Sweden.Trade ReviewThe editors of the book, Marcus Callies and Magnus Levin, have assembled a fascinating collection of work addressing an intersection of language and context that is of itself a growing area of interest for linguists. * Human Kinetics *[The book] offers innovative empirical studies that use new corpus resources to showcase the structural-linguistic and discourse aspects of a wide range of sports (e.g. football, cycling, motor racing), genres (e.g. live commentary, post-match reports, legal texts) and contexts of use (e.g. sports media, in-team communication). Considering the pioneering investigations involved in each chapter, the volume is especially impressive in its exploratory nature and rich implications for future research. * LINGUIST *[T]his is an excellent contribution to scholarly research around mental health. * Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies *An innovative, multifaceted collection going beyond current trends: studying English in comparison with other languages, investigating football and various other sports, studying metaphors, phraseology and many other aspects, analysing not only match reports and live text commentaries, but also a series of internet genres just emerging, with new variants of multimodality and language mixing – rich, profound, and inspiring! * Eva Lavric, Professor of Romance Linguistics, Innsbruck University, Austria *This comprehensive volume is among the first to focus on the language of sports, covering a wide range of topics from discussions in race car cockpits to online fan commentaries, which are analysed from equally diverse linguistic perspectives. A highly recommended read for anyone interested in the cultural, social and linguistic aspects of sports. * Tuomo Hiippala, Assistant Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Finland *This is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning collection of linguistic research on mediated sports discourse. The editors have to be congratulated for preparing a fascinating book that will prove to be indispensable to scholars and students in linguistics, media studies and communication, as well as to anybody else interested in sports, language and communication. * Jan Chovanec, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic *Table of Contents1. Introduction. Corpus approaches to the language of sports: texts, media, modalities, Marcus Callies (University of Bremen, Germany) and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Part I. Texts. Contrastive and comparative aspects of the phraseology of football match reports 2. Formulaic language and text routines in football live text commentaries and match reports – A cross- and corpus-linguistic approach, Simon Meier (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) 3. The language of football match reports in a contrastive perspective, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway) 4. Lexical features of football reports: computer- vs. human-mediated language, Rita Jukneviciene (Vilnius University, Lithuania) and Paulius Viluckas (Vilnius University, Lithuania) Part II. Media. Expanding the scope of research to new contexts of use 5. Such a nice guy who loved racing his bike: framing in media accounts of fatal crashes involving competitive cyclists, Turo Hiltunen (University of Helsinki, Finland) 6. “When did I do dangerous driving then?”: structures and functions of Formula One race radio messages, Jukka Tyrkkö (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and Hanna Limatius (University of Tampere, Finland) 7. The emotional content of English swearwords in football chatspeak: WTF and other pragmatic devices, Isabel Balteiro (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) 8. Fighting for integrity against a corrupting disease: the legal metaphors of sports fraud, Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Part III. Modalities. Multimodal studies 9. A multimodal analysis of football live text commentary, Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany) 10. ‘Fear and disgust’ – A corpus study of sentiment towards sporting events as expressed multimodally on 4chan’s /sp/ board, Peter Crosthwaite (University of Queensland, Australia) and Joyce Cheung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) 11. A comparative multi-modal corpus study of dislocation structures in live football commentary, Marcus Callies (University of Bremen, Germany) and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Meaning of Sports , Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball became national institutions and how they reached their present forms and covers the evolution of rules, the rise and fall of the most successful teams, and the historical significance of the most famous and influential figures such as Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi, and Michael Jordan. Whether he is writing about baseball as the agrarian game, football as similar to warfare, basketball as the embodiment of post-industrial society, or the moral havoc created by baseball's designated hitter rule, Mandelbaum applies the full force of his learning and wit to subjects about which so many Americans care passionately: the games they played in their youth and continue to follow as adults. By offering a fresh and unconventional perspective on these games, The Meaning of Sports makes for fascinating and rewarding reading both for fans and newcomers.Trade Review"Not only fascinating but enormously entertaining. A knowledgeable sports fan will learn more than a thing or two. I'm one and I did. The non-sports fan will discover just why sports are woven so tightly into the fabric of American life." Wall Street Journal"

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Book SynopsisAlways an Athlete is a comprehensive study of the ways in which athletes climb what author JennÉ Blackburn terms “The Mountain”—the journey from youth sports, through high school and college sports, to, finally, professional, and Olympic sports. This steady climb and success over a long period of time, however, sets up athletes for an inevitable fall off “The Cliff” upon their retirement from competition.To help athletes in transition, Blackburn identifies “Three Pillars of the Cliff”—Mental Health, Physical Health, and Athlete Identity—and describes the issues that athletes have in each of these areas after they retire. After training, sacrificing, and devoting years, even decades, to a sport, athletes at every level will struggle within these three pillars. Blackburn believes that athletes must evolve from a competition mindset to a wellness mindset and match their new lifestyles in order to soften this transition into the real world. Fortunately, the “Inner Athlete” honed over many years of training and competition can show up as a “Parachute” as athletics recede, and other priorities rise to the forefront of their new life.Ultimately, Blackburn proposes cycling as a foundation and universal tool to help retired athletes resolve a lingering loss of identity, mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, and complications due to unchanged diet and exercise habits when they transition out of a performance-purposed existence. She advocates for fun community bike rides adjacent to sporting events and franchises to bring sports communities together around this critical yet overlooked topic for all athletes: life after competitive sports.Trade ReviewIn Always an Athlete Jenne Blackburn analyzes the challenges of transitioning from elite competitive sport to a healthy lifestyle. What most consider a counterintuitive concept for body-focused athletes, Blackburn correctly identifies the very real struggles that face accomplished performers upon retirement from competition. Read any biography of a college or professional athlete and you will find a story filled with years of focused training: most were introduced to their sport when there were in elementary school and started specializing in middle school; most bore the weight of a family that was equally committed to their success in sport; and, most made their college and career choices based primarily on the institution’s reputation for excelling in their sport. Blackburn details how this twenty-year, single-minded focus inevitably leads to a loss of personal identity once the scoreboard goes dark. She also provides pragmatic strategies for transitioning to new ways of being an athlete and developing healthy life habits." - Kathy DeBoer, Former Athlete, Coach, Executive Director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, and Author of Gender Competition: How Men and Women Compete at Work and Play Differently"Always an Athlete by Jenne Blackburn is a must read for all athletes and coaches, because Jenne has done a fantastic job of breaking down the anxiety surrounding that transition from active athlete to retirement and how to better equip ourselves for this moment. Here is the thing . . . as athletes, we know retirement is eventually coming. We worry about a loss of identity, yet, we don’t often know how to deal with that loss of identity and community. Teammates feel like family, and Always an Athlete helps you build a parallel community that also inspires confidence and courage. Most important, Jenne offers fabulous guidance and strategies for athletes and coaches alike, so that BEFORE we hit our “cliff moment” of transitioning out of our sport, the apprehension is replaced by action, knowing sports has given us a platform to soar." - Julie Foudy, former captain of USA Women’s Soccer Team, 2x Olympic Gold Medalist, 2x World Cup Champion, and an analyst and reporter with ESPN and Warner Bros Discovery"For over 50 yrs. I have witnessed firsthand athletes’ transition out of their sport. This experience is a massively complicated challenge for many athletes. A whirlwind of change all at once, where mental health, physical health, and athlete identity are disrupted. In Jenne Blackburn’s book, the reader will relive the athlete’s journey “up the mountain” (youth to professional sports) to the inevitable “cliff” (retirement). Jenne highlights the drivers that impact mental health, physical health, and athletes’ loss of identity. More importantly, she provides us with greater awareness AND solutions to better prepare them for the end of their career. This book is an excellent blueprint for athletes, sports parents, coaches, administrators, and communities to align education and events around athlete identity, mental health, and physical health. In completing this read, you will gain insight, the urgency to act, and articulated solutions for your retiring athletes. Always an Athlete® will provide impactful research insight, education curriculum, and community-building activities, better preparing athletes for life after sport. Jenne inspires all of us to do more in preparing athletes for a thriving and celebratory experience in sports and beyond. Her book gives us the roadmap, the tools to traverse the mountain of challenges, and a mindset to leap off that cliff of retirement with a parachute of solutions for a thriving life after sport." - Sue Enquist, Former UCLA Softball Coach, 11-Time National Champion, and 6-time Hall of Fame

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