Open Call for Chapter Proposals | The Bloomsbury Academic Handbook of Language and Sport | Call ends May 6, 2024

Bloomsbury Academic have commissioned the Handbook of Language and Sport as part of their Bloomsbury Academic Handbook Series. This collection will showcase the growing array of research that is exploring language patterns, practices and issues in sport and sport contexts. Through this handbook, readers will get a state-of-the-art account of the research missions, methodological approaches, the settings or domains of language use being studied, social issues in sport in which language is implicated, and the application of linguistic research to the world of sport that have emerged as foundational to this area of research. We also consider the future of research in this space that scholars might pursue.

The handbook will have five sections:

• • Section 1: Approaches to researching language and/in sport
  • Section 2: Domains of language and sport research inquiry
  • Section 3: The sociolinguistics of sport: social issues in sport through a linguistic lens
  • Section 4: Applications and interventions: applying linguistic insights to sport
  • Section 5: The future of sports linguistics research

Chapters already approved for inclusion in the handbook are written by scholars who have been central in building this field of research activity. However, we would like to openly invite scholars to propose potential chapters in line with their research interests or on any of the following topics or areas:

• • The use of Interactional Sociolinguistics to explore language use in sport (a methodological chapter for Section 1)
  • Language use by or with referees/officials (for Section 2)
  • Language in sports boardrooms or in sports management-level interactions (for Section 2)
  • Team culture in sports contexts through a linguistic lens (for Section 3)
  • Language and inclusion/exclusion in sport (for Section 3)
  • Multilingualism in sport: a linguistic perspective (for Section 3)
  • Any chapters that highlight linguistic consultancy, applications or interventions in the world of sport

We’d be particularly interested in researchers who take a critical perspective on these topics. Please send any expressions of interest to the editors (listed below) with a short abstract for your chapter by May 6, 2024.

Editors

• • Kieran File (k.file@warwick.ac.uk)
  • David Caldwell (david.caldwell@unisa.edu.au)
  • Lindsey Meân (lmean@asu.edu)