37.3680, Books: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Sport: File, Caldwell, and Meân (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 02-Nov-2026
From: Arianne Hill [Arianne.Hill at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Sport: File, Caldwell, and Meân (eds.) (2026)


Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Sport
Series Title: Bloomsbury Handbooks
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-handbook-of-language-and-sport-9781350477032/

Editor(s): Kieran File, David Caldwell, and Lindsey Meân

Hardback.
9781350477032
£140.00

Abstract:

The handbook brings together a growing body of research that explores
the language people use when they are playing, coaching,
administering, reporting on and watching sport. In addition to
illustrating the variety of research being undertaken at the interface
between language and sport, the volume conceptualises, consolidates
and distinguishes the exciting and expanding field of sports
linguistics that is emerging around these studies.
Grounded in the broader concerns of linguistics, sociolinguistics and
discourse analysis, sports linguistics is a field united by an
interest in understanding the role of language role in sport and the
important ways in which language functions to enable people to engage
in sport in its various contexts. It also unpacks the social issues
and cultural patterns that are reconstructed through language in the
contexts where sport is happening.
The chapters provide a state-of-the-art account of the research
missions, methodological approaches, domains of study, key social
issues and research applications that have emerged as foundational to
the work researchers are doing in this field around the world.
Contributors also consider the future of sports linguistics, locating
domains, issues and opportunities a linguistic lens on sport might
pursue to usefully and impactfully advance and connect the field to
wider linguistic theory and social theories of sport.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


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