sport

[Koller, Veronika]

Dear Joe,
Sounds like a fascinating topic. I don't know if you read German, but
there's a monumental (long version: 6 hours!) play by Nobel Prize winner
Elfriede Jelinek ("Sportstueck", literally "Sports play"), which is all
about the links between sports, masculinity and fascism.  

Sport is of course also a very productive source domain for metaphors in
political  and business discourse, where it often functions as an
attenuation of the war metaphor. If you're interested, you could check
out the following: 

Howe, Nicholas (1988): Metaphor in Contemporary American Political
Discourse. Metaphor & Symbol, 3(2), 87-105. 
Koller, Veronika (2004): Metaphor and Gender in Business Media
Discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Best regards,
Veronika


Veronika Koller
Lecturer in Critical Discourse Analysis
Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University
Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT
Phone: ++44-(0)1524-594642
Fax: ++44-(0)1524-843085
Web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/koller/index.htm

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." (Mary
Wollstonecraft)

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Sent: 06 December 2005 03:32
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Subject: Introduction

Dear all,

My name is Joe Piggin. I am half-way through* my PhD study from Otago
University (New Zealand), and have switched to part time since beginning
lecturing here at Unitec in Auckland this year. 

My research is heavily influenced by Foucault. I am researching how
different discourses about sport, such as 'nationalism', 'fitness' and
'social cohesion', find their way into public policy. Along with this, I
have been looking at how ideas about sport are contested and resisted
through public debate and protest.  

One paper from my thesis involves Bakhtin's idea of heteroglossia (or
multiple discourses within a text) to look at how competing ways of
thinking and talking influence debate and resistance to governmental
policy. 

Related to discourse, I find lecturing in sport management / sport
marketing is a unique place to at once teach how to use a particular
discourse ('management speak'), while also bringing to the fore the
potential negative and harmful effects of doing so!

Regards
Joe Piggin

*I've been half-way through for a while now!

Joe Piggin
Lecturer
School of Sport
Unitec, Auckland
09 815 4321 Ext 8012
Cell: 021 472 888