How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams

Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and athlete language plays in shaping these relationships remains largely unexplored. This book addresses this gap by examining how every day, authentic language patterns used by coaches, captains and players shape relationships in a professional New Zealand rugby team. More specifically, through a discourse analysis of taken-for-granted ritual language practices in training sessions, team meetings and match-day interactions, the chapters of this book illustrate how coaches, captains and players shape particular interpersonal dynamics of power and solidarity between themselves in and through language and, in the process, reflect and reconstruct shared and underlying ideologies about how relationships of power and solidarity work in their team. Offering an evidence-based discussion of the silent and pervasive ideologies that underpin how relationships work in professional sports teams, this book extends research on this important topic by providing largely missing illustrations of consequential interpersonal dynamics that actively shape professional relationships in sports teams. Written in an approachable style, this book offers linguists, social scientists and sports practitioners a frame of reference for greater understanding of how language directly shapes relationships of power and solidarity.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-03
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350044241

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List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgements1. How Do Relationships Work in Professional Sports Teams? Investigating the Performance of Relationships through a Linguistic Lens2. Introducing our Toolkit: Discourse Analytical Tools for Locating Relational Dynamics in Social Interaction3. How Do Coaches Exercise Control over Players? Constructing Asymmetrical Power Relations through Language4. Exercising Power through Questioning: How Coaches Use their Questions5. How Does Power-Sharing Work? The Interactional Distribution of Power between Coach and Captain6. Power Dynamics amongst Players: Establishing Flatter Social Structures in On-Field Problem Solving Talk7. Bonding before Battle: How the Captain Fosters Togetherness and Belonging in Pre-Match Team-Talk Rituals8. Maintaining Professional Distance in Interaction: The Nature of Solidarity between Coaches and Players9. Criticism and Solidarity between Coach and Players: Variation in Critical Feedback Practices10. Widening the Linguistic Lens: Identifying Cultural Belief Systems Underlying How Relationships Work in Professional Sports TeamsAppendix 1: Technical Rugby Terms ExplainedAppendix 2: Contextual Information about Individuals in the TeamReferencesIndex

An invaluable resource for scholars and social scientists in linguistics and relationships, showcasing the use of a linguistic lens to understand relationships that could be applied to many different social settings, not just in sport. As a resource for practitioners in sport interested in culture and high-performing teams, it offers value in thinking about the language they use and how it impacts on the team.