Adrian Beard

The Language of Sport

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Language of Sport:
_ looks in detail at the language of sports-talk including commentary and 'new sportswriting'
_ explores linguistic representation of related issues such as gender, national/regional identity
_ examines the way sport sells itself as an agent of social cohesion and as a way to sell other products
_ includes BBC, ITV and radio transcripts of such sporting events as Euro '96

Produktdetails

• Intertext
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9780415169110
• ISBN-10: 0415169119
• Artikelnr.: 22451275

Autorenporträt

Adrian Beard is Head of English at Gosforth High School in Newcastleupon-Tyne. He is Principal Moderator at the Northern Examining and Assessment Board for A-Level English Literature Coursework.

Inhaltsangabe

Unit one: This sporting life
It's not cricket
Fields of dreams
Advertising and sport Unit two: Sporting figures Anyone for tennis? Running commentaries
Leading ladies Unit three: The state of the game The sporting battlefield
Olympic ideals
Sporting legends
Unit four: Sporting codes
The level playing field Unit five: Sportstalk I Spot the balls up 61 What does it feel like? Unit six: Sportstalk II Television commentary 1 Television commentary 2 Radio commentary Unit seven: Sportswriting I Framework for looking at texts
The comic hero
How to play
The fans' view
Telling it like it is Unit eight: Sportswriting II Writing documentary

Rezensionen

'Beard's book is a welcome addition not only to A-Level English Language courses, at which it is aimed, but also to the literature concerned with mediated sport. The book is clearly written, and is conveniently structured into 'units.' - Culture, Sport and Society