Abstract
In this article, the author argues that the practice of sports as an articulation of social collectivity should be approached not only in terms of institution and social structure but also in terms of discourse and positioning. The ethnographic case of Brazilian soccer informs this piece as the author analyzes nationalism and hegemony using a sociolinguistic approach. The focus of the article rests on the voices of various dominant as well as fragment populations, whose discursive practice help explain how cultural forms such as soccer can be recognized as national even by disinterested persons or those citizens who seek to resist particular ideologies within such cultural forms.
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