Language, Identity Online and Running

This book focuses on language and identity online within the context of runningfrom an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together digital ethnography,existential phenomenology, interpretative phenomenological analysis andsporting embodiment in the pursuit to explore runners' lived experiences andidentities online. Language, identity and identity online are often studied inbroader social contexts such as education, culture and politics, and running isintimately related to key issues in contemporary society, such as health andexercise, sport and nationalism, embracing a variety of discourse types andhaving implications more generally for our identity as human beings. The evolvingonline media through which people make sense of who they are and which groupsthey belong to are enabling new ways of realising identities and relationships. This book will be of interest to applied linguists, discourse analysts, as well as those interested in sports, sports psychology, and identity enactment.