About the Book:Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender deconstructs the role of rhetoric in the multi-billion dollar popular cultural/infotainment business. Wide-ranging, with contributors representing a number of different disciplines and athletic interests, this volume examines sport vis–vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena. The book is divided into the following accessible sections: sport language; historical perspectives; print media representations; broadcast media representations; visual media representations; and classic case studies and is an original and insightful resource.