Sociological study of the conceptualization of sports metaphors in the discourse of the development of disabled sports (case study: women and men disabled athletes in Tehran in 1401)

Tajarrod, Aboolfazl; Rezaeepasha, Sedigheh

doi:10.30465/scs.2025.49437.2878

Sociological study of the conceptualization of sports metaphors in the discourse of the development of disabled sports (case study: women and men disabled athletes in Tehran in 1401)

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Authors

aboolfazl Tajarrod ¹

Sedigheh rezaeepasha ²

¹ Department of Sociology of Sports, Faculty of Social Sciences, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran. Iran

² Department of Sociology of Sport, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.30465/scs.2025.49437.2878

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the sociological conceptualization of sports metaphors in the discourse of the development of disabled sports. This research was conducted using qualitative research method and thematic analysis strategy. The statistical population is 30 disabled athletes (men and women) from the Paralympic teams who were selected in person and voluntarily using judgmental and opinion sampling. In this research, the interview data were categorized into three levels of basic themes, organizing themes, and overarching themes in the coding process, then these themes were drawn as a conceptual model map and the salient themes of each of these three levels were shown along with the relationships between them. became. The comparison of the results obtained from the analysis of the conceptualization of Paralympic disabled sports metaphors shows that a kind of gendered metaphor is observed in the metaphors related to men and women, and it is an indication of the existence of "gendered language" that exists in the vocabulary of women.

Keywords

Sports metaphors

disabled men and women athletes

discourse

sports development

theme analysis

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