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Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations. This book explores how language use patterns by athletes, coaches, sports fans, and the sports media can create or impede inclusion. Issues of in/exclusion in a range of sports and a variety of socio-cultural contexts are explored, raising important questions for practitioners about how to address matters of in/exclusion that are evident in everyday language use. Acknowledgments Contents Approaching issues of inclusion and exclusion in sports through language Part I: Creating inclusion/exclusion in authentic interaction Chapter 1 ‘Dribble dribble dribble! Dribbling is the most elementary in football’: Doing inclusion in park-based children’s sport Chapter 2 #StillWeRise: The sociolinguistics of race, inequalities, and athlete activist identities in Formula 1 social media Chapter 3 Do collective pronouns construct inclusive coach-athlete relations? Chapter 4 Constructing inclusive team management structures: Evidence of multiparty participation in the leadership of a university basketball team Chapter 5 Banter as a tactic of inclusion in sports organizations Chapter 6 “Sisters are hot”. Denying netball players their athletic identities through sexualisation practices in online fan groups in Malawi Part II: Inclusion/exclusion in the sports media. The representation of female and transgender athletes Chapter 7 Good girls and bad boys? A corpus analysis of gendered discourses in Australian media coverage of “masculine” team sports Chapter 8 From “the National Pride” to “the Daughters”: Media representations of Olympic sportswomen in Turkey Chapter 9 “Fairness versus inclusion”: Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports Part III: Reflecting on the language of inclusion and exclusion by athletes and coaches Chapter 10 Within binaries instead of beyond? The discursive (self-)exclusion of young female football players from football as a male and masculine space Chapter 11 A critical examination of homo-negative language use and the pragmatics of inclusion and exclusion of gay rugby players Chapter 12 “Ha ha ha you don’t cover you aurat”: Exploring modesty, prayer, and Malaysian Muslim women gymnasts’ experience of inclusion and/or exclusion Chapter 13 Putting inclusion into practice: A sociolinguistic lens on institutional practices for establishing an inclusive sports organisation Chapter 14 Bringing everything together: Considering the role of language in effecting inclusion and exclusion in sport List of contributors Index