That match was “a bit like losing your virginity”. Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches

KA File, S Schnurr - Journal of Pragmatics, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper explores the under-researched topic of failed humour in the context of public-
facing media interactions. While most previous pragmatics research has focused on the …

The language and discourse (s) of football. Interdisciplinary and cross-modal perspectives: introduction to the thematic issue

EM Graf, M Callies, M Fleischhacker - Soccer & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In 2010, the communication scientists Meân and Halone introduced their collection of
papers on “Situating Sport, Language, and Culture as a Site for Intellectual Discussion” in …

How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams

K File - 2022 - torrossa.com
While this book is a book about language, it is simultaneously a book about what language
helps humans do and what human language patterns can reveal. The main role our …