This article begins with contemporary observations drawn from the communicative situation of professional basketball in France. A specialist lexicon and, moreover, the presence of different languages in a context dependent on performance, leads us to question the ’language of basketball’ and what a dictionary of the language of basketball today could look like.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage