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To date, the world of sports has witnessed fundamental changes with regard toa diversification of sports types and events, commercialization and globalization of major spectator sports, and an ever-increasing public attention and intensive coverage in various media and modalities.The emergence of new sports genres in theage of computer-mediated communication (Herring, 1996) has opened up an innovative way of studying sports discourse, i.e.,by means of large online electronic resources, while at the same time, linguistic research has greatly benefitted from corpus-based and corpus-driven investigations of real-world language due to the compilation and accessibility of computercorpora and software tools

Shuyi Amelia Sun. (2020) Book Review: Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports(Texts, Media, Modalities), Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics, volume 2, issue 1.
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