Language in Sport

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.

Andrew S. Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Canberra, Australia. 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.

1 Sports Linguistics: Speaking and Doing ANDREW S. ROSS, DAVID CALDWELL AND Y. J. DORAN 2 The "Other" Side of Leadership: Unpacking Leadership and Followership Performance through Linguistics in a University Basketball Team ANASTASIA STAVRIDOU 3 Discursively Regulating Driver Emotions During Live Formula 1 Racing Events: an Emotion Regulation Interpretation of Time-Gap Information Messages KIERAN FILE 4 The Lexicon of Team- Based Spoken Rugby Discourse STUART BENSON 5 Socialisation and Organisation: The Language and Discourse Within Cycling Group Rides ANDREW S. ROSS 6 Ambiguous 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 7 Mic'd up and Mentoring: A Discourse Analysis of Mediatised Coach Discourse DAVID CALDWELL 8 Demarcating Information: Setting up Drills and Giving Instructions in Sport Y. J. DORAN AND LILIÁN I. ARIZTIMUNO 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 10 Toward Language- Based Pedagogies for In- Game Communications in Youth Level Sport IAN SHERWIN, FERGUS O'DWYER, AND SALLY MCCARTHY 11 Developing Behaviours and Beliefs in Ballet ELENA LAMBRINOS 12 Language in Sport: Wherefore and Where To? Y. J. DORAN, DAVID CALDWELL AND ANDREW S. ROSS