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  • The Battle of Pinkie, 1547

    The Last Battle Between the Independent Kingdoms of Scotland and England

    The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a well-documented battle with several eyewitness accounts and contemporary illustrations. There is also archaeological evidence of military activities. The maneuvers of the two armies can be placed in the landscape near Edinburgh, despite considerable ... Read more

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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Sport

    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The handbook brings together a growing body of research that explores the language people use when they are playing, coaching, administering, reporting on and watching sport. In addition to illustrating the variety of research being undertaken at the interface between language and sport, the volume conceptualises, consolidates and distinguishes the exciting and expanding field of sports ... Read more

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  • Language in Sport

    Real-Time Talk in Training and Games

    Series series Routledge Research in Language and Communication
    This collection showcases the language of “doing” sport, emphasizing the real-time talk of players and coaches during training and games toward elucidating real-time language use and encouraging effective sporting pedagogies. While there is established work at the intersection of linguistics and sport, this book places a particular focus on real-time participation, as opposed to media reporting or ... Read more

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  • Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics

    Developing Theory from Practice

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of Appliable Linguistics. Featuring both internationally-renowned scholars and rising stars from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA, Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics examines the ... Read more

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  • Evaluative Language in Sports

    Crowds, Coaches and Commentators

    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Walsh, Caldwell and Jureidini offer an expansive linguistic perspective on the evaluative language prevalent in the world of professional sports.This book presents a close linguistic analysis of evaluative language in sport. Drawing on appraisal theory and data from three distinct sporting contexts – songs and chants in football stadiums, television commentary and coach discourse – it examines the ... Read more

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  • The Discourse of Sport

    Analyses from Social Linguistics

    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of language-in-use in the context of sport, and interprets them through the lens of larger issues within sport culture and practice. With contributions from an ... Read more

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    With the rise of new technologies and media, the way we communicate is rapidly changing. Literacies provides a comprehensive introduction to literacy pedagogy within today's new media environment. It focuses not only on reading and writing, but also on other modes of communication, including oral, visual, audio, gestural and spatial. This focus is designed to supplement, not replace, the ... Read more

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  • Culloden

    The History and Archaeology of the Last Clan Battle

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