Sports Discourse in American, British and Croatian Newspapers

Natasa Stojan
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split

Abstract

Abstract Sport is an important part of culture and society with its influential and pervasive role in various spheres of people's lives. The aim of the study is to analyse media representation of the Paris Olympic Games 2024 in newspaper headlines from The Times, The New York Times and Večernji list. The corpus is composed of headlines related to the Paris Olympics published from 11 July to 12 August 2024. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of newspaper headlines in the context of sport and interprets them through the lens of CDA. The work of Wodak, Fairclough and van Dijk has been particularly taken into consideration to analyse specific discursive practices in the field of sport and to focus on complex interrelationships between texts and sociocultural practice in British, American and Croatian newspaper discourse. Results of our study have shown that sport has diverse socio-political and cultural implications in different societies and the context in which sports discourse is embedded helps to understand social realities and power relations in the society.

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