Sports Discourse

by Tony Schirato

Book Overview

This book both defines sports discourse, and provides an account of the different discourses that are utilized and come into play when the field of sport speaks. It shows how the sports communities have been addressed over time by various speakers, across various multimodal genres. Tony Schirato looks first at how discourse can be viewed as a form of work, something that produces and naturalizes meanings, and habituates the way we see the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474228607
• ISBN13: 9781474228602
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"