‘Bigger than football’ : Racist talk on and off the soccer pitch

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2023.2250660" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2023.2250660</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2250660" target="_blank" >10.1080/14660970.2023.2250660</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

‘Bigger than football’ : Racist talk on and off the soccer pitch

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Racism is a major social and cultural problem that has, in various forms, plagued football for a long time. Despite the attempts of official bodies to root it out, racist talk and behaviour are still rife among players as well as in fan communities. The present paper provides a case study of online users’ comments on the media coverage of a series of controversial incidents during a recent UEFA Europa League matchinvolving an alleged verbal act of racial abuse between two players. Adopting a discourse analytical perspective, the paper contrasts how the match controversies were reflected in the users’ public online discourses in two different cultural communities, namely the UK and the Czech Republic, and identifies some of the similarities and differences between the two. The analysis shows how the users reframe the underlying racist issue, trivialize it through humour and relativize its seriousness. The data indicate that such discourses surrounding football are important for understanding how fans construct various group identities and how specific socio-cultural contexts influence the perception of race-related controversies.

Název v anglickém jazyce

‘Bigger than football’ : Racist talk on and off the soccer pitch

Popis výsledku anglicky

Racism is a major social and cultural problem that has, in various forms, plagued football for a long time. Despite the attempts of official bodies to root it out, racist talk and behaviour are still rife among players as well as in fan communities. The present paper provides a case study of online users’ comments on the media coverage of a series of controversial incidents during a recent UEFA Europa League matchinvolving an alleged verbal act of racial abuse between two players. Adopting a discourse analytical perspective, the paper contrasts how the match controversies were reflected in the users’ public online discourses in two different cultural communities, namely the UK and the Czech Republic, and identifies some of the similarities and differences between the two. The analysis shows how the users reframe the underlying racist issue, trivialize it through humour and relativize its seriousness. The data indicate that such discourses surrounding football are important for understanding how fans construct various group identities and how specific socio-cultural contexts influence the perception of race-related controversies.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Soccer and Society

ISSN

1466-0970

e-ISSN

1743-9590

Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

7

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

942-957

Kód UT WoS článku

001071528200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85172769427