The language of sport: Some remarks on the language of football

Abstract

For decades we have been able to observe an increasing popularity of sports as a media event. The presence of sport in the media (press, radio, TV and the Internet) has resulted in the language of sport becoming more significant. In the following study an attempt will be made to investigate some features of the language of sport and to present some research perspectives on the example of football as the most interesting sporting discipline in most European countries. The majority of the language examples comes from the Polish, German and English languages.