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For several decades, social science and humanities researchers have pointed to a linguistic turn (Rorty, 1967), and the interest in the social and cultural role of language coincided with the rise of post-structuralism. One prominent approach to the qualitative analysis of language and semiotics within a post-structuralism tradition is discourse analysis. Discourse analysis merges theory and methods (Philips & Jørgensen, 2002), and encompasses a variety of disciplines and heterogeneous intellectual traditions such as social linguistics, sociology, political science, communication studies, critical theory, and ethnomethodology (Wodak, 2006). Despite drawing a particular attention to language and semiotics, speaking about discourse analysis in singular makes little sense - as if there is one method primarily coined by one theoretical origin (Glynos et al. 2009). However, to the best of our knowledge, we still miss a comprehensive overview that covers how multiple and cross-disciplinary sub-fields adopt discourse analysis to sport contexts. Therefore, the main purpose is to conduct a scoping review of the use of discourse analysis in humanities and social science research within the field of sport in its broadest sense (i.e., sport, exercise, movement cultures, physical education, management, and leisure). This presentation aims to outline and discuss the implications of the methodological choices existing in and dominating the field through responding to three research questions: 1) Which theoretical traditions within a discourse analytical framework are chosen and preferred? 2) Which empirical foundations underpin the studies? 3) Which sub-disciplines within the field of sport have adopted discourse analysis and which have abstained from it?
