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.
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Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Communication in the Transnational Game
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350298545
Publisert
2023
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Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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