They say it's beyond words : a study of professionals' discourse on football
This is a discourse analytic study of how professional footballers talk about the game of football. The study reveals how talk about football constructs the nature of the game,i ts constraints,p otentials and contingenciesw, hile attending to participants' accountability in it. An initial observation is that the talk's construction exhibits everyday conventions of discourse, which are what make it intelligible, and that the specific nature of football is provided for within those general discursive conventions. The context of 'football itself is not some physical entity that determines the type of talk which occurs within it. Rather, it is through their discourse that professional participants build the nature and relevance of that context, and build their own status as individuals who are both competentp rofessionalsa nd competenti nformantso n professional practices. What also becomes evident, in examining the construction of the talk, is that there are two sides to it. On the one hand, within their descriptions, or versions, there is flexibility in terms of what a speaker can say, or construct as relevant and factual, in building the talk's context. On the other hand, speakersr outinely attend to there
Kops, Matthew
Linguistics
They say it's beyond words : a study of professionals' discourse on football. This is a discourse analytic study of how professional footballers talk about the game of football. The study reveals how talk about football constructs the nature of the game,i ts constraints,p otentials and contingenciesw, hile attending to participants' accountability in it. An initial observation is that the talk's construction exhibits everyday conventions of discourse, which are what make it intelligible, and that the specific nature of football is provided for within those general discursive conventions. The context of 'football itself is not some physical entity that determines the type of talk which occurs within it. Rather, it is through their discourse that professional participants build the nature and relevance of that context, and build their own status as individuals who are both competentp rofessionalsa nd competenti nformantso n professional practices. What also becomes evident, in examining the construction of the talk, is that there are two sides to it. On the one hand, within their descriptions, or versions, there is flexibility in terms of what a speaker can say, or construct as relevant and factual, in building the talk's context. On the other hand, speakersr outinely attend to there
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