Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Approaching issues of inclusion and exclusion in sports through language -- Part I: Creating inclusion/exclusion in authentic interaction -- Chapter 1 'Dribble dribble dribble! Dribbling is the most elementary in football': Doing inclusion in park-based children's sport -- Chapter 2 #StillWeRise: The sociolinguistics of race, inequalities, and athlete activist identities in Formula 1 social media -- Chapter 3 Do collective pronouns construct inclusive coach-athlete relations? -- Chapter 4 Constructing inclusive team management structures: Evidence of multiparty participation in the leadership of a university basketball team -- Chapter 5 Banter as a tactic of inclusion in sports organizations -- Chapter 6 "Sisters are hot". Denying netball players their athletic identities through sexualisation practices in online fan groups in Malawi -- Part II: Inclusion/exclusion in the sports media. The representation of female and transgender athletes -- Chapter 7 Good girls and bad boys? A corpus analysis of gendered discourses in Australian media coverage of "masculine" team sports -- Chapter 8 From "the National Pride" to "the Daughters": Media representations of Olympic sportswomen in Turkey -- Chapter 9 "Fairness versus inclusion": Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports -- Part III: Reflecting on the language of inclusion and exclusion by athletes and coaches -- Chapter 10 Within binaries instead of beyond? The discursive (self-)exclusion of young female football players from football as a male and masculine space -- Chapter 11 A critical examination of homo-negative language use and the pragmatics of inclusion and exclusion of gay rugby players -- Chapter 12 "Ha ha ha you don't cover you aurat": Exploring modesty, prayer, and Malaysian Muslim women gymnasts' experience of inclusion and/or exclusion -- Chapter 13 Putting inclusion into practice: A sociolinguistic lens on institutional practices for establishing an inclusive sports organisation -- Chapter 14 Bringing everything together: Considering the role of language in effecting inclusion and exclusion in sport -- List of contributors -- Index