ON SOME MICRO- AND MACROLINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL COMMENTARY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46991/FLSP.2021.19.062Keywords:
sportcasting, foregrounding, framing of participants, descriptive, interpretative and evaluative discourse, entertaining function, cognitive metaphor, heavy modifier, high rises, inversions, fluctuations of loudness, rhythm and speech rateAbstract
The article deals with the language of football sportcasting, a genre with
increasing discursive importance. Football commentary is relevant, since its
linguistic features have been studied to a certain extent. Football and sportcasting
in general is a highly distinctive English genre with heavy reliance on
extralinguistic components of the communicative situation, in particular, the phase
of the play, channel of transmission, characteristics of the announcer and his/ her
erudition. Commentator's talk mainly describes the actual happenings,
simultaneously fulfilling the foregrounding and entertaining functions. This brings
into play macro-discursive and microlinguistic or subtextual features to sustain the
viewers' attention and the rapport between the announcer and the unseen
audience.
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