"Enfants de la balle": sports terminology and the French language in the age of Louis XIV.

نویسنده

  • J H Overfield
چکیده

Among the areas of modern life that have been influenced by sport, few have been affected as much as language. Each sport has its own vocabulary which defines and describes its rules, players, equipment, strategies, and game situations. Sports words and phrases have also come to be used routinely in figures of speech, metaphors, and proverbial expressions. Thus speakers of contemporary American English, whether they are knowledgeable of baseball or not, understand that when a person “strikes out,” that person has failed; when a person “hits a grand slam,” she or he has succeeded spectacularly; and when a person has been “thrown a curve,” she or he has been fooled and perhaps deceived.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The International journal of the history of sport

دوره 16 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999