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Author Chovanec, Jan, author

Title The discourse of online sportscasting : constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary / Jan Chovanec
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 303 pages)
Series Pragmatics & beyond new series (P & BNS), 0922-842X ; Volume 297
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 297
Contents Conventionalized patterns of language variation -- The linguistics of sports commentary -- Live texts, blogging and journalism -- Material and characterization of data -- Structuring the LTC: the event and liveness -- Structuring the LTC -- Managing event discontinuities -- Creating co-presence -- Threading and narrative layers: from interactivity to interaction
Summary "This book offers the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of live text commentary, one of the most innovative online genres of modern news media. The study focuses on written sports commentaries in online newspapers that enable partial real-time audience involvement in the media text. Adopting an approach from interactional pragmatics, the book identifies the genre's characteristic micro-linguistic features as well as its unique narrative structure. Live text commentary is shown to be a hybrid and multimodal text format - an internally complex form of media communication that combines elements of live spoken broadcasting, blogging, informal conversation and online chat. It aims to inform as well as entertain the audience: by using humour, banter and real or staged dialogue it seeks to create a sense of community among its readers - sports fans. The book will be of interest to many scholars in linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis and social sciences, as well as to all others interested in modern online genres, news media and sports discourse"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2019)
Subject Sports journalism -- History -- 21st century
Social media.
Online journalism.
Rhetoric
social media.
rhetoric (discipline)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Online journalism
Rhetoric
Social media
Sports journalism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018047926
ISBN 9789027263339
9027263337