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2020, vol. 74, iss. 1, pp. 47-56
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Discourse of discipline: Communicative strategies in coaches' speech
Diskurs disciplinovanja - strategije u govoru trenera
aUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Sports and Physical Education bUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology
email: gordana.vekaric@fsfv.bg.ac.rs
Keywords: pragmatics; sports discourse; strategic model of communication
Abstract
The great importance sport plays in modern society has resulted in analyses of many aspects of its social dynamics. The relationship of its main actors, in this case the coaches and athletes, was most often discussed form pedagogical, psychological and sociological stances and a relatively small number of studies referred to their communication, or rather its linguistic expression. The aim of this research was to describe the pragmatic mechanisms and the strategy of disciplining that coaches use when talking to athletes in two typical situations in sport: in training and at a competition. The research corpus, collected by a Discourse Completion Test, consists of authentic responses from 93 coaches of both genders. The corpus for analysis included 196 responses, categorised as clusters of speech acts which according to the strategic model could be categorised as examples of the disciplining strategy. Qualitative analysis provided an insight into the types of speech acts used in the analysed speech sequences, the functioning of politeness strategies used to mitigate the pressure on the interlocutors face, conversation implicatures and presuppositions which enable interpretation of the intended meaning that shapes coaches' discourse. The results of the analysis imply that coaches prefer using a more direct strategy in both observed situations, but also that by combining politeness strategies and indirectness they frequently disguise their communicative intentions, which most often refer to disciplining and requiring a change in the behaviour of the athlete. The conclusions we reached could be practically used in the education of coaches, by raising awareness of the importance of the aspects of linguistic production that would be appropriate in training and competitive situations, since the choice of linguistic strategies can improve the interaction of coaches and athletes.
Sažetak
Veliki značaj sporta u savremenom društvu uticao je da se analiziraju mnogi aspekti njegove društvene dinamike. O odnosima glavnih aktera, trenera i sportista, govorilo se najčešće sa pedagoških, psiholoških i socioloških stanovišta, a relativno Mali broj istraživanja odnosi se na njihovu komunikaciju, odnosno na njen jezički izraz. Cilj ovog istraživanja je da se opišu pragmatički mehanizmi i strategije disciplinovanja koje treneri upotrebljavaju u obraćanju sportistima u dve tipične situacije u sportu: na treningu i na takmičenju. Korpus za istraživanje prikupljen je pomoću testa dopune diskursa, kojim su dobijeni autentični odgovori 93 trenera oba pola. U korpus za analizu je ušlo 196 odgovora koji su kategorisani, kao vezani govorni činovi i koji su se, prema strateškom modelu, mogli svrstati u primere strategije disciplinovanja. Kvalitativnom analizom dobijena je slika o vrsti govornih činova koji se u analiziranim sledovima upotrebljavaju, funkcionisanjem strategija učtivosti koje se koriste za ublažavanje pritiska na obraz sagovornika, konverzacionim implikaturama i presupozicijama koje omogućuju da se protumači nameravano značenje koje oblikuje obraćanje trenera. Rezultati analize ukazuju da treneri rado koriste direktniju strategiju disciplinovanja u obe posmatrane situacije, ali i da kombinujući strategije učtivosti i indirektnosti, često prikrivaju svoje komunikativne namere, koje se najčešće odnose na disciplinovanje i promenu ponašanja sportista. Zaključci do kojih se došlo mogu naći praktičnu primenu u edukaciji trenera, kroz podizanje svesti o značaju aspekata jezičke produkcije koji bi bili prikladni u trenažnim i takmičarskim situacijama, što bi svakako doprinelo kvalitetu interakcije trenera sa sportistima.
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