David Caldwell is a Lecturer in English Language and Literacy in the School of Education at The University of South Australia.John Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.Elaine W. Vine is a Honorary Research Associate in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies  at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.

• Foreword: Lindsey J. MeânChapter 1: Discourse, linguistics, sport and the academy: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine and Jon Jureidini Chapter 2: Language as a key resource for the football coach: a case study of in-game coaching at one Australian Rules club: John Walsh and Jon Jureidini Chapter 3: Representations of experience in the language of televised and radio football commentaries: Patterns of similarity and difference in Transitivity: Ben Clarke Chapter 4: Personal Assistants, Community Interpreting, and Other Communication Strategies in Multilingual (European) Football Teams: Eva Lavric and Jasmin Steiner Chapter 5: ‘I didn't know you were allowed two goalkeepers’: How football managers negotiate invitations to criticise referees in the media: Kieran A. File Chapter 6: The interactional construction of evaluation in post-match football interviews: Antje Wilton Chapter 7: The Visceral and the Analytics: Discourses in the Evaluation of Sports Players: John Walsh and David Caldwell Chapter 8: Constructions of ‘whiteness’: Race, sport and Australian media: Alison Wrench and Robyne Garrett Chapter 9: Rankings in Sports Discourse and their Metaphors: Eva Lavric and Josef Weidacher (†) Chapter 10: Of Cover Girls and Bad Boys: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Gendered Keywords in Malaysian Sports News Discourse: Habibah Ismail Chapter 11: The Register of Sports News around the World – A Quantitative Study of Field in Newspaper Sports Coverage: Jennifer Fest Chapter 12: Results, resolve, reaction: words, images and the functional structure of online match reports: Helen Caple