28.3537, FYI: Call for Chapters: Multimodality, Corpus, Sports

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:31:17
From: Marcus Callies [callies at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Multimodality, Corpus, Sports

 
Call for book chapters in an edited volume on
“(Multimodal) Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports”

In recent decades, the world of sports has witnessed fundamental change and
transformation in terms of a diversification of types of sports and sports
events, an increasing commercialization and globalization of major spectator
sports such as football or basketball, accompanied by an ever-growing
popularity and intensive media coverage of various kinds. Despite this
increasing popularization and public attention there are still comparatively
few comprehensive studies that focus on the linguistic and discourse aspects
of sports (see Beard 1998, Lavric et al. 2008, Burkhardt & Schlobinski 2009
and Caldwell et al. 2016). The projected volume aims to add to the little
existing research literature by focusing on corpus approaches to the language
of sports.

Corpus linguistics and the compilation and accessibility of computer corpora
and software tools for corpus analysis has revolutionized (applied)
linguistics in the last decades. The study of language use has greatly
benefitted from the corpus-based and corpus-driven investigation of ‘real’
language as it is actually used by speakers and writers in different contexts
and for different purposes. Recently, researchers have increased efforts to
make available corpus resources for the study of the language of sports (see
e.g. Meier 2017). We therefore especially welcome contributions from a
usage-based perspective that make use of corpus data and corpus-linguistic
methods.

One major aim of the volume is to highlight the potential of studying the
language of sports in association with its accompanying audio-visual modes of
communication from a multimodal perspective. As of yet, the analysis of
corpora of (spoken) language has mostly been limited to a monomodal, i.e.
textual level. Multimodal corpus approaches, employing digitized collections
of language and communication-related material that draw on more than one
modality (e.g. text, image, audio, and video), should be put more explicitly
on the agenda of corpus linguistics to fully describe and understand the
complexities of human communication through various channels (Adolphs & Carter
2013).

We therefore invite contributions that apply (multimodal) corpus-linguistic
methodologies to the language of sports. The scope of the contributions is
open to a wide range of sports types (e.g. football, baseball, basketball,
hockey etc. ), genres (after-match sports reporting, live sports commentary,
post-match interviews etc.) and contexts of use (various sports media,
coaching, in-team communication, on-field language, supporters talk and fan
chants, sports discourse in social media etc.).

For those interested in submitting a chapter, please send your abstracts (max.
500 words plus references) to Marcus Callies (callies at uni-bremen.de) and
Magnus Levin (magnus.levin at lnu.se). Abstracts will be used for a full proposal
to be sent for consideration to Bloomsbury Academic (“Corpus and Discourse”
book series). We also welcome any questions or suggestions about the projected
volume.

The deadline for abstract submission is November 1 2017.

References:

Adolphs, Svenja & Ronald Carter (2013), Spoken Corpus Linguistics. From
Monomodal to Multimodal. London & New York: Routledge.

Beard, Adrian (1998), The Language of Sport. London: Routledge.
Burkhardt, Armin & Peter Schlobinski, eds. (2009), Flickflack, Foul und
Tsukuhara. Der Sport und seine Sprache. Mannheim: Dudenverlag.

Caldwell, David, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine & Jon Jureid, eds. (2016), The
Discourse of Sport. Analyses from Social Linguistics. London & New York:
Routledge.

Lavric, Eva, Gerhard Pisek, Andrew Skinner & Wolfgang Stadler, eds. (2008),
The Linguistics of Football. Tübingen: Nar Francke Attempto Verlag.

Meier, Simon (2017), Korpora zur Fußballlinguistik – eine mehrsprachige
Forschungsressource zur Sprache der Fußballberichterstattung. Zeitschrift für
germanistische Linguistik 45:2, 345–349.
[http://fussballlinguistik.de/korpora]
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 



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