Lexicon
For professional athletes, as soon as they become professionals, they are engrossed in a different lifestyle. They automatically become a part of a specific lexis. For example, a basketball player has a different lexis than a football player. A basketball player will not know specific words or cadences that go with football players. Same thing as with a football player to a basketball player. The only thing that all these sports have in common is scoring as many points as possible. Each discourse community is different.
Baseball:
-Bunting-when a player lines up a bat horizontal instead of trying to hit the ball with a regular swing to advance a runner already on a base
-Home run-when a player hits a ball forward into the crowd
-Triple-when a player hits a ball and runs three bases
-Single-when a player hits a ball and gets a single base
-Double-when a player hits a ball and gets two bases
-Double play-when a player hits a ball to any opposing player and that player throws you out before you reach a base and throws someone else out already on base trying to get to another base
-Shortstop (position)-the position between a first baseman and a second baseman
Football:
Endzone-the ends of a football field
-Touchdown-when a team gets 6 points after scoring reaching the endzone
-Point-after-touchdown (P.A.T.)-after a team scores a touchdown, they can attempt another point with a kicker
-Field goal-if a team does not score a touchdown, they can attempt a field goal with a kicker which is worth three points
-2 point conversion-when a team, instead of wanting to convert a PAT, can attempt to get two points (have to score from the 5-yard line)
-Special teams-if a team is punting, that same team has to run down the field and stop the receiving team after the kicker punts the ball
-Quarterback-the player that throws the ball to other people
-Offensive line-the huge players that protect the quarterback from the defense
Basketball:
-And One-when a player gets fouled and makes the basket in the same process
-Shot clock violation-when a team fails to score a basket before the designated 24 second time runs out
-Flagrant-when a player is too aggressive and commits a foul deemed excessive or vicious in nature. If the player gets two of these, he/she is ejected
-Traveling-when the player runs/moves without dribbling the basketball
-Double dribble-when a player stops dribbling, picks up their dribble, and continues dribbling again (not allowed)
-Timeout-when a coach stops the playing by saying timeout to give his players a rest and draw a new play
-Buzzer beater-when a player makes a shot just before the buzzer sounds (at the end of every quarter)
Hockey:
-Goalie-the player that stops the opposing team from scoring
-Midice-the center of the ice
-Offsides-when a player with the puck puts the puck over the opposing team's blue line
Icing-when a player shoots the puck from his/her team's side to the opposing team's goal line
-High sticking (penalty)-when a player raises their stick in the air to make contact with an opposing player to injure (most times), annoy, intimidate, or distract
-Freezing the puck-when a goalie will not keep the puck and play and instead holds it in their gloves
-Face-off circles-if a team commits a penalty or play is stopped, teams face off in a blue circle (there are four, two for each side) to determine who gets the puck
Soccer:
-Midfield-the center of the field
-Defenders-people trying to stop the opposing team from scoring a goal
-Penalty kick-when a player gets to kick a free goal if an opposing player commits a penalty
Yellow card-the refs stop play and assess this to anyone that does something not allowed
-Red card-when someone gets too many yellow cards or does something deemed very dangerous to injure or harm someone
-Extra time-if teams are locked in a tie, there is a specific amount of extra time awarded to see if the tie can be unbroken
-Strikers-people who go on the offensive and try to score goals