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now taking place in Germany is predictably anodyne. But on this occasion it seems apt. Tens of thousands of fans are peacefully mingling with each other in German cities. The controversies that attended the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, about gay rights, for example, are absent from the. Russia’s football team has been barred from the competition, as it was from Qatar, because its government invaded Ukraine.
” Adam Hurrey delightfully documents a case study of this phenomenon: football. Mr Hurrey, a journalist, forensically examines the language of the sport. For instance, there are 73 different ways to describe the scoring of a goal. It can be drilled, rifled, lashed, thundered, smashed or belted in—but each verb has its own nuance. Mr Hurrey does not limit himself to linguistic analysis; he also examines the clichéd behaviours of fans and players.
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