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Author | : Brendan H. O'Connor |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-04-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1350298549 |
What can baseball teach us about language, culture, and society? The first book-length exploration of multilingualism in professional sports, Multilingual Baseball provides an intimate look at language diversity in the transnational world of baseball. Based on extensive interviews and observations in the US and the Dominican Republic, the book foregrounds the voices of current and former players, coaches, front office personnel, international scouts, language teachers, and interpreters, with baseball experience in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Engaging a wide range of foundational concepts within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic and cultural anthropology, the analysis reveals the relevance of bilingualism to the social and economic realities of professional baseball as a transnational business. It also illuminates day-to-day encounters with linguistic and cultural difference on the field, in clubhouses, and in communities around the world. Through this linguistic lens, the book delves into social issues in diverse societies by connecting interactions within baseball to the broader challenges of immigration, race, and demographic change. While grounded in the experiences of Spanish and English speakers in US Major League Baseball organizations, Multilingual Baseball presents the transnational game as a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting readers to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday baseball interactions.
Author | : Brendan H. O'Connor |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-04-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1350298530 |
What can baseball teach us about language, culture, and society? The first book-length exploration of multilingualism in professional sports, Multilingual Baseball provides an intimate look at language diversity in the transnational world of baseball. Based on extensive interviews and observations in the US and the Dominican Republic, the book foregrounds the voices of current and former players, coaches, front office personnel, international scouts, language teachers, and interpreters, with baseball experience in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Engaging a wide range of foundational concepts within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic and cultural anthropology, the analysis reveals the relevance of bilingualism to the social and economic realities of professional baseball as a transnational business. It also illuminates day-to-day encounters with linguistic and cultural difference on the field, in clubhouses, and in communities around the world. Through this linguistic lens, the book delves into social issues in diverse societies by connecting interactions within baseball to the broader challenges of immigration, race, and demographic change. While grounded in the experiences of Spanish and English speakers in US Major League Baseball organizations, Multilingual Baseball presents the transnational game as a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting readers to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday baseball interactions.
Author | : Ryan Gray |
Publisher | : Coaches Choice Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9781585186280 |
A humorous, informative and entertaining look at thecolorful and unique language of the national pastime.Whether you're a coach, player, umpire or fan, TheLanguage of Baseball will be a book that you'll readthrough and then reference time and again.
Author | : Paul Dickson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0802777198 |
A noted baseball historian provides an unusual look at the complex systems of coded language that govern action on the field, examining the tradition of signing that has become an intrinsic part of the baseball world.
Author | : Jorge Iber |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2023-12-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476649375 |
Both the U.S. population and Major League Baseball rosters have seen dramatic demographic changes over the past 50 years. The nation and the sport are becoming multilingual, with Spanish the unofficial second language. Today, 21 of 30 MLB teams broadcast at least some games in Spanish. Filling a gap in the literature of baseball, this collection of new essays examines the history of the game in Spanish, from the earliest locutores who called the plays for Latin American audiences to the League's expansion into cities with large Latino populations--Los Angeles, Houston and Miami to name a few--that made talented sportscasters for the fanaticos a business necessity.
Author | : Joseph McBride |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780809230235 |
From "fungo" to "pebble pickers" and "Grapefruit Leagues" to "forkballs", this volume is a must-have collection of baseball terminology for every sports fan. This book includes slang expressions, nicknames, baseball terminology and familiar quotations from baseball's past and present.
Author | : Harry Lewis |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1257930524 |
"Aimed at visitors to American soil or just to American culture, this book is an illustrated guide to the game of baseball and how to use its lingo"--Cover p. [4].
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Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Computational linguistics |
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Author | : Thomas Hofstetter |
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Total Pages | : 206 |
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Author | : Joan Didion |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0525433821 |
A Vintage Shorts Selection • Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion’s now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail exposed, in no uncertain terms, the complete sham that is the modern American presidential run. Writing with bite and some humor too, Didion betrays “the process”—the way in which power is exchanged and the status quo is maintained. All insiders—politicians, journalists, spin doctors—participate in a political narrative that is “designed as it is to maintain the illusion of consensus by obscuring rather than addressing actual issues.” The optics of presidential campaigns have grown ever more farcical and remote from the needs and issues most relevant to Americans’ lives, and Didion’s elegant, shrewd, and prescient commentary has never been more urgent than it is right now. An ebook short.