Competitive Verbal Interaction in Online Minute-by-Minute Match Reports

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Authors	CHOVANEC Jan
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Brno Studies in English
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Arts
Citation
Web	Digitální knihovna FF MU http://www.phil.muni.cz/plonedata/wkaa/BSE/BSE_2006-32_Offprints/BSE%202006-32%20(023-035)%20Chovanec.pdf
Field	Linguistics
Keywords	dialogicality; intertextuality; sports reporting; media discourse; discourse analysis; live blogging; blogs
Description	The article analyses competitive verbal interaction between commentators and readers/other commentators in online minute-by-minute match reports. The text of MBMs frequently quotes other voices, which are conventionally reacted to by the commentator. The dialogism has a competitive nature, with the commentator striving to top the readers through humour or criticism. Such interpersonal gossip is linked with the non-serious elements of male discourse, and is explained as a strategy of synthetic personalisation.
Related projects:	Integration in Languages - Languages in integration