Some sport historians working in the new culture paradigm have
incorporated the ‘techniques of literary and linguistic analysis’ into their historical analyses as they attempt to ‘lay bare meaning – its inscription in texts,
its construction in terms of “otherness”, its multidimensionality, and its relationship to the wider context of discourse’.
Indeed, in certain areas of sport history, notably the policing of female
physicality, discourse analysis is already an orthodox method of interpretation, and is spreading into other areas such as the study of the olympics.