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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:45:24
From: Melanie Fleischhacker [Melanie.Fleischhacker at aau.at]
Subject: The Language and Discourses of Football

 
Full Title: The Language and Discourses of Football 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Eva-Maria Graf
Meeting Email: eva-maria.graf at aau.at

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

In recent decades, football, the major spectator sport in Europe and South
America, has seen an increasing commercialization and globalization,
accompanied by an ever-growing popularity and intensive coverage in various
kinds of media and modalities. This increased popularization and public
attention has also led to more research on the language and discourse(s) of
football, which is, however, scattered over a diversity of outlets with only
few thematically focused collections existing to date (see, e.g. Adelmann et
al. 2003; Settekorn 2007; Lavric et al. 2008; Taborek et al. 2012; Aptum
2018).

Football-related linguistic research has for a long time focused on
structural-linguistic aspects in various reporting genres such as post-match
reports and live commentary on radio and TV, in particular with a view to
phraseology, including specialised terminology and jargon. Only few studies to
date have examined specific pragmalinguistic resources such as the
discourse-pragmatic functions of selected syntactic constructions in live
sports reporting (e.g. Ferguson 1983; Jürgens 1999; Callies & Levin 2019b) or
pragmatic borrowings (e.g. Balteiro 2018). Generally speaking, research has
become more diverse and interdisciplinary in the last fifteen years or so with
an increasing number of studies looking at football language from a wider
discourse perspective in several under-researched contexts (see Caldwell et
al. 2016). For example, recent studies have examined wordplay and humour
(Chovance 2017; File & Schnurr 2018), talk in football audiences (Gerhardt
2014; Tolson 2016; Hauser & Meier 2018), and post-match interviews (e.g.
Wilton 2016; File 2017, 2018). At the same time, the emergence of new genres
of sports reporting in the age of online computer-mediated communication has
opened up many new and innovative ways of studying football language and
discourse and its accompanying audio-visual modes of communication from a
multimodal perspective (see e.g. Chovanec 2018 or several papers in Callies &
Levin 2019a). Concurrently, recent years have also witnessed a growing
discourse-oriented research in football as gendered social practice (Jeans &
Kay 2007; Jeans 2012; Graf & Fleischhacker in prep.) and gender aspects in
televised football (Johnson & Finlay 1997; Kennedy 2004).


Second Call for Papers: 

With this panel we invite contributions that adopt a pragmatic, usage-based
perspective and make use of a broad range of data and methodologies to examine
the pragmatics of the language, communication and discourses of football in a
variety of genres, by participants and stakeholders on and off the pitch and
in all kinds of contexts of use. The contributions should add to current
efforts of extending the scope of (applied) linguistic research on football
language and discourse to new genres, participants and contexts of use, e.g.
sports media, in-team communication, sports-related professional discourse,
multimodal fan communication in social media and in the stadium, e.g. through
chants and banners (Brunner 2009; Siebetcheu 2016; Monaghan 2020).

Please submit your abstract until October 25, 2020 via the IprA website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/login). Abstracts should contain minimally 250
and maximally 500 words and state a clear research question, provide
information on data and methodology and formulate (first) findings.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed as part of the official review process.
Please note that you will have to become a member of the International
Pragmatics Association to submit a paper abstract to the conference (see
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Winterthur2021).




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