36.424, Books: Multilingual Baseball: O'Connor (2023)

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Date: 01-Feb-2025
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Multilingual Baseball: O'Connor (2023)


Title: Multilingual Baseball
Subtitle: Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Communication
in the Transnational Game
Publication Year: 2023

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/multilingual-baseball-9781350298569/

Author(s): Brendan H. O'Connor

Paperback: 9781350298569  Price: £28.99
Hardback: 9781350298521 Price £95.00

Abstract:

What can baseball teach us about language, culture, and society?
The first book-length exploration of multilingualism in professional
sports, Multilingual Baseball provides an intimate look at language
diversity in the transnational world of baseball. Based on extensive
interviews and observations in the US and the Dominican Republic, the
book foregrounds the voices of current and former players, coaches,
front office personnel, international scouts, language teachers, and
interpreters, with baseball experience in the Dominican Republic,
Cuba, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.
Engaging a wide range of foundational concepts within
sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic and cultural
anthropology, the analysis reveals the relevance of bilingualism to
the social and economic realities of professional baseball as a
transnational business. It also illuminates day-to-day encounters with
linguistic and cultural difference on the field, in clubhouses, and in
communities around the world. Through this linguistic lens, the book
delves into social issues in diverse societies by connecting
interactions within baseball to the broader challenges of immigration,
race, and demographic change. While grounded in the experiences of
Spanish and English speakers in US Major League Baseball
organizations, Multilingual Baseball presents the transnational game
as a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting
readers to consider what we can learn from the bilingual
understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday baseball
interactions.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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