Publications

Publication details [#53444]

Tovares, Alla V. 2010. Managing the Voices: Athlete Self-Talk as a Dialogic Process. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 29 (3) : 261–277.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialogic | identity negotiation | motivation | self-talk | sports language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study draws on Bakhtin’s internal polemic to increase current understanding of athletic self-talk as motivational tool for enhancing athletic performance, and to offer a nuanced comprehension of how athletes construct and perform identities.