1st Edition

Language in Sport Real-Time Talk in Training and Games

Edited By Andrew S. Ross, David Caldwell, Y.J. Doran Copyright 2026
250 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection showcases the language of “doing” sport, emphasizing the real-time talk of players and coaches during training and games toward elucidating real-time language use and encouraging effective sporting pedagogies. While there is established work at the intersection of linguistics and sport, this book places a particular focus on real-time participation, as opposed to media reporting... Read more

1 Sports Linguistics: Speaking and Doing

ANDREW S. ROSS, DAVID CALDWELL AND Y. J. DORAN

2 The “Other” Side of Leadership: Unpacking Leadership and Followership Performance through Linguistics in a University Basketball Team

ANASTASIA STAVRIDOU

3 Discursively Regulating Driver Emotions During Live Formula 1 Racing Events: an Emotion Regulation Interpretation of Time-Gap Information Messages

KIERAN FILE

4 The Lexicon of Team- Based Spoken Rugby Discourse

STUART BENSON

5 Socialisation and Organisation: The Language and Discourse Within Cycling Group Rides

ANDREW S. ROSS

6 Ambiguous Person Reference in Coach Talk: How New Zealand Rugby Coaches Mediate the Directness of Their Player-Directed Speech through the Use of Pronouns, Personal Names, and Familiar Address Terms

NICK WILSON

7 Mic’d up and Mentoring: A Discourse Analysis of Mediatised Coach Discourse

DAVID CALDWELL

8 Demarcating Information: Setting up Drills and Giving Instructions in Sport

Y. J. DORAN AND LILIÁN I. ARIZTIMUNO

9 The Coach- Athlete Communication Interface at an Australian Ski Racing Club: Coaching Styles and Coach Communication in Ski Racing

JOHN LYLE, IAN RENSHAW AND JOHN WILLIAMS

10 Toward Language- Based Pedagogies for In- Game Communications in Youth Level Sport

IAN SHERWIN, FERGUS O’DWYER, AND SALLY MCCARTHY

11 Developing Behaviours and Beliefs in Ballet

ELENA LAMBRINOS

12 Language in Sport: Wherefore and Where To?

Y. J. DORAN, DAVID CALDWELL AND ANDREW S. ROSS

Biography

Andrew S. Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Canberra, Australia.

David Caldwell is Associate Professor in English Language and Literacy at the University of South Australia.

Y. J. Doran is Associate Professor in English Language and Literacy at the Australian Catholic University.