Sports Discourse

'How best can we define sports discourse? This book looks at what discourses come into play when the field of 'sport' speaks, and how the sports communities have been addressed over time by various speakers, in 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. How do these discourses become naturalized and how do they shape activities and materialities? With the globalized success of sport, how does sport use discourse to define itself? Grounding this exploration is an account of the development of the field of sport as a specific discursive regime, one that is both reflected and refracted by the dominant discourses and values of the time. The book ends with an examination of how new technologies and the Web are changing sports discourse, in some cases radically: online commentary, Twitter and user-generated content especially'--