How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams : Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team /: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kieran File.
• Authors: File, Kieran
• Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgements 1. 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: Discourse analysis; Sociology: sport & leisure; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Communication Studies; Sports & Recreation -- Sociology of Sports; Linguistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350044258; 1350044253
• Related ISBNs: 9781350044241
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