Abstract
This paper focuses on how meaning is constructed through discourse and, more particularly, through declarations in the Iranian sport context. Given that little is known about the practices of coaches and players in sport declarations, the present study takes advantage of some tools suggested by Gee, in conjunction with local Iranian knowledge, to analyze how meaning is communicated from the ‘source discourse’ of sport declarations to readers and what problems readers (insider or outsider) may face in the interpretation of meaning. The data used for this purpose include two declarations issued by Mohammad Mayeli Kohan, the former coach of the Iran National Football Team. Among the 10 tools utilized in this study, three tools were found to be more in line with Iranian culture than the others. Combined with native knowledge of the linguistic, cultural, encyclopedic, and physical contexts, this study reveals that the writer was indirectly pointing to the unprofessionalism, impurity, untruthfulness, and disguise that largely prevail in the Iranian Football community.
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