Nicknames and the Lexicon of Sports

Kennedy, Robert A.; Zamuner, Tania S.

doi:10.1215/00031283-2006-026

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“…The nicknames were allocated to semantic categories according to the content area or areas they referred to. Nickname categories in this research were formed both by partially following and combining the methodologies of Lawson and Phillips (1985), Skipper (1989), Abel and Kruger (2006), Kennedy and Zamuner (2006), as well as Abel (2009) on the one hand, and by creating our original categories (e.g., boxing style, hyperbolic personality traits, etc.) on the other.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…football (soccer) (Awad 2012; Babane and Chauke 2015), baseball (Abel and Kruger 2006;Skipper 1984), American football (Skipper 1989), to a comparison of nicknames in various sports (cf. Kennedy and Zamuner 2006), etc. Kennedy and Zamuner (2006) analysed nicknames of professional hockey and baseball players, and divided them into Homeric or phrasal nicknames on the one hand, and hypocoristic nicknames on the other.…”

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“…Kennedy and Zamuner 2006), etc. Kennedy and Zamuner (2006) analysed nicknames of professional hockey and baseball players, and divided them into Homeric or phrasal nicknames on the one hand, and hypocoristic nicknames on the other. Lawson and Philipps (1985) divided North American college and university sports team nicknames into several groups: human world, animal world, mythical and legendary including supernatural and imaginary, natural phenomena, weapons and ammunition, institutional names, created names, colours, inanimate objects, miscellaneous, and their multiple subgroups.…”

Section: Past Research Into Nicknames Of Athletesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As for sports, nicknames are given to athletes (cf. Abel and Kruger 2006;Awad 2012; Babane and Chauke 2015; Kennedy and Zamuner 2006;Skipper 1989Skipper , 1992, sports teams (Lawson and Phillips 1985;Ndimande-Hlongwa 2010), coaches (Skipper 1989), even the lines (three forward positions) on a skating rink (e.g. hockey lines or numberlines -Chernoff 2017).…”

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Analysis of Male Boxer's Nicknames

Omrčen

Pečarić²

2018

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Nicknaming of individual athletes and sports teams is a multifaceted phenomenon the analysis of which reveals numerous reasons for choosing a particular name or nickname. The practice of nicknaming has become so embedded in the concept of sport that it requires exceptional attention by those who create these labels. The goal of this research was to analyse the semantic structure of boxers’ nicknames, i.e. the possible principles of their formation. To realize the research aims 378 male boxers’ nicknames, predominantly in the English language, were collected. The nicknames were allocated to semantic categories according to the content area or areas they referred to. Counts and percentages were calculated for the nicknames in each subsample created with regard to the number of semantic categories used to create a boxer’s nickname and for the group of nicknames allocated to the miscellaneous group. Counts were calculated for all groups within each subsample.

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2018

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“…The major reason is that the required enculturation into the sport takes time. One should know the sport's history and all the relevant details of current players, including their nicknames (Kennedy & Zamuner, 2006); should preferably have been a known player (Justin Robert & Cummins, 2009); and must become profi cient as a performer (Baker, 2007;Kuiper, 1996). For the most part, one should also be male.…”

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The Effect of the Broadcast Medium on the Language of Radio and Television Sports Commentary Genres: The Rugby Union Lineout

Kuiper¹,

Lewis²

2013

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This study provides provisional answers to the question, What infl uence does the broadcast medium have on the speech of sports commentators? It answers the question through a comparison of the infl uence of two media on the way in which rugby football commentaries of lineouts are given. Previous linguistic research has examined sports commentary speech largely independent of the effects of the medium in which commentary is broadcast. However it is clear that sports commentaries serve somewhat different purposes in the case that someone can see what is happening and where they cannot. We show that the differences are manifested, for instance, in whether an episode in the game is given commentary at all, the amount of commentary the episode receives, commentators' priorities recounting the various subepisodes of the game they are viewing, and the weight given to color versus play-by-play commentary. In all these cases, radio commentators provide more detailed commentary. It may be, therefore, that as far as the induction into the oral traditions of commentary are concerned, radio is a more demanding apprenticeship and that recruiting television commentators from among radio commentators will lead to a more fl uent television commentary. mentary tends to rise and fall with the pitch of the spectator noise (Kuiper, 1996). Racing commentaries are droned or chanted (Kuiper, 1991). However, in breaks between overs in cricket in England, the play-by-play commentator and his color commentator partner sometimes sound as though they are having a conversation in a private club. Again such prosodic traditions are specifi c to particular sports and regions. Even the prosodies of a play-by-play commentator during the play and when the play is not proceeding are different.

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