Sports Semiotics

By Arthur Asa Berger

Sports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies, as well as sections on football and the sacred, the Super Bowl, and the semiotics of televised baseball.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004541349
• ISBN13: 9789004541344
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 80 Pages