<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Sport constitutes an increasingly popular language of discourse in modern societies, providing a (formal) system of signs, which is easily used by, among others, businesses, media, public persons, and, particularly willingly, politicians. Thus, sport as a system of meanings can transfer any values, being at the same time a pragmatic way of arguing in the practice of social life. An example we analyze, are the events that took place after Poland (and Ukraine) had been chosen to be host countries of UEFA EURO 2012™, as well as those which took place during the tournament itself. In these analyses, we use the concept of semiotics and, in particular, pragmatism as well as Charles Sanders Peirce’s triadic sign relation.</p></abstract>

Sport constitutes an increasingly popular language of discourse in modern societies, providing a (formal) system of signs, which is easily used by, among others, businesses, media, public persons, and, particularly willingly, politicians. Thus, sport as a system of meanings can transfer any values, being at the same time a pragmatic way of arguing in the practice of social life. An example we analyze, are the events that took place after Poland (and Ukraine) had been chosen to be host countries of UEFA EURO 2012™, as well as those which took place during the tournament itself. In these analyses, we use the concept of semiotics and, in particular, pragmatism as well as Charles Sanders Peirce’s triadic sign relation.

UEFA EURO 2012™ in the Polish Sociopolitical Narration

University School of Physical Education in Wrocław, Poland

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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Sport constitutes an increasingly popular language of discourse in modern societies, providing a (formal) system of signs, which is easily used by, among...

UEFA EURO 2012™ in the Polish Sociopolitical Narration

Publié en ligne: 05 déc. 2015

Pages: 14 - 22

Reçu: 23 avr. 2015

Accepté: 28 juin 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pcssr-2015-0025

Mots clés
UEFA EURO 2012, sport, values, semiotics, Peirce

© 2015 Tomasz Michaluk et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

UEFA EURO 2012™ in the Polish Sociopolitical Narration

Publié en ligne: 05 déc. 2015

Pages: 14 - 22

Reçu: 23 avr. 2015

Accepté: 28 juin 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pcssr-2015-0025

Mots clésUEFA EURO 2012, sport, values, semiotics, Peirce

© 2015 Tomasz Michaluk et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
UEFA EURO 2012, sport, values, semiotics, Peirce