The Influence Of Language And Language In Sports

All people speak a language and many can speak multiple. Yet, language is not simply English, Spanish, French, and the many others; it is the art of communication that is comprised of dialects, accents, behaviors, and even unspoken rules. Language is continuously affected by these kinds of influences, as well as others, including sports. Sports have influenced and strongly affected language while also impacting the values and structure of the western culture. The many aspects of sport and its environment are what force change on the language people use. When analyzing language and sport it is important to identify the aspects that play into the two. For example, the primary aspects focus on the rhetoric which can be seen affecting the gender

The researchers wanted to see “the relation of verbal aggressiveness and state anxiety (somatic, cognitive, and self-confidence)” between coaches and athletes in a sex-specific sport such as volleyball (Bekiari et al., 2006, p. 630). Results examining both sexes showed males have higher levels of somatic anxiety due to the verbal aggressiveness of their coaches compared to female volleyball players (Bekiari et al., 2006). These results could be due to the kind of training and competitiveness, but it still shows how the use of language can have different effects on athletes nonetheless. Additional research done by Julie Masterson, Lisa Davies, and Gerald Masterson showed that coaches should “use positive instruction rather than negative feedback” to encourage their athletes (2006, p. 41). This backs the ideas that verbal aggression is harmful and the research “consistently shows verbal aggression may be associated with negative outcomes and learned helplessness,” two aspects that can be seen in sports that are contributed to the language that is used (Bekiari et al., 2006, p.