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Volume
1, Issue 1, 2009
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The House that Words Built: How Language Shapes Baseball
Legends
Roy F. Fox
Abstract
This study explores how the language of newspapers and
magazines helped shape the legends of baseball stars, such
as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, Mark McGwire, Barry
Bonds, and others. Certain techniques and approaches are
often used, across a variety of players who made their mark
in different decades, crafted by talented writers and
speakers. The purpose of these approaches is to engrave or
imprint words and images in the readers‘ minds—ones they
will remember in positive, often inspiring ways. These
techniques include alliteration; ―"allness" orientations,
especially the use of superlatives; similes and metaphors;
and syntax. This paper next examines larger issues that
function at whole-discourse levels, including introductions,
point of view, contrast and conflict, and language as an
accurate (or inaccurate) map of reality.
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