SPORT, RHETORIC, AND GENDER: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS; ED. BY LINDA K. FULLER

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Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender deconstructs the role of rhetoric in the multi-billion dollar popular cultural/infotainment business. Wide-ranging, its 21 chapters, from contributors representing a number of different disciplines and athletic interests, examine sport vis-̉-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena. Edited by Linda K. Fuller, it consists of these divisions: 1. Sport language per se; 2. Historical perspectives; 3. Print media representations; 4. Broadcast media representations; 5. Visual media representations; and 6. Classic case studies.