An Analysis of Factors Involved in Nicknaming of Some Soccer Players in South Africa

Babane, M.T.; Chauke, M.T.

doi:10.1080/09720073.2015.11891785

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“…Nicknames are given to athletes (cf. Abel & Kruger, 2006;Awad, 2012;Babane & Chauke, 2015;Kennedy & Zamuner, 2006;Skipper, 1989Skipper, , 1992, sports teams (Lawson & Phillips, 1985;Ndimande-Hlongwa, 2010), coaches (Skipper 1989), even the lines (three forward positions) on a skating rink (e.g., hockey lines or number lines -Chernoff, 2017). It is worth noting some sports that have received attention in the literature: football (soccer) (Awad, 2012;Babane & Chauke, 2015), baseball (Abel & Kruger, 2006;Skipper, 1984), hockey and baseball (Kennedy & Zamuner, 2006), rugby (Wilson, 2010), and American football (Skipper, 1989).…”

Section: Previous Studies On Address Terms Among Studentsmentioning

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Address Terms Used among Male Basketball Players at a Ghanaian University

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2021

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In the last three decades, there has been an increasing interest among scholars in the use of address terms across domains such as academia, politics, religion, family, friendship, and sports. The present study examines the range of address terms and the factors that influence their use among male basketball players in a Ghanaian university. In this study, we draw on the notion of community of practice. An ethnographic research approach, comprising mainly participant and non-participant observation and interview, was adopted in collecting our data. Two key findings emerged from the analysis. First, Ghanaian male university students used four major categories of address terms while playing basketball: personal names, descriptive terms, nicknames, and ethnic-related terms. Second, in general, these address forms constituted an isogloss or idiolect, identifying the male basketball players as a distinct community of practice. These findings have implications for the sociolinguistic research on address terms in the domain of sports, gendered language, and further research on communication in sports.

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Section: Previous Studies On Address Terms Among Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Address Terms Used among Male Basketball Players at a Ghanaian University

Afful¹,

Opoku-Addo²

2021

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“…Eighth, Babane & Chauke (2015) have said that the aim of this paper is to discuss the meaning and relevance of the nicknames given to soccer players in the Premier Soccer League in South Africa, either as a token of appreciation or disapproval; the argument raised in this paper is that there is a marked deterioration in the creative naming of nicknames in the contemporary dispensation unlike in the past; the result shows that soccer stars are given nicknames either by coaches, teammates or by fans and these players are famously known by their nicknames, rather than their personal first names.…”

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