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"Steve, you must feel pig sick!": Streamed video interactions between Premier League managers and sports journalists as semi-scripted performances
No full textThe starting point of this paper is the phenomenon of so-called MediaSport, namely the pervasive and multi-faceted mediation of sports events that extends the reach and hold of the sports industry on communities of sports consumers. The specific aspect of MediaSport considered here is the streamed post-match interview with Premier League team managers, a stabilized media interaction that reflects the importance of media duties as part of the manager's corporate brief. Critical attention to managers seems mainly confined to sociological studies of the politics of celebrity, while linguists seemingly have little to say about this kind of discourse. The data selected for analysis are two interviews following defeat. The choice falls on this scenario because it is expected it will entail a greater onus on managers to display media interaction expertise. Using a theoretical framework that draws on Goffman's concepts of performance, participation framework, and face, the discourse analysis in this paper attempts to provide an account of the linguistic resources managers draw on in these mediated interactions. The analysis of turn-taking, topic control, deixis and modality reveals similarities in the sample interviews that suggest these encounters are actually semi-scripted collaborative performances that allow both interactants to preserve their face as competent professionals, while also affording the manager ample opportunity to interact with the major imagined recipient, namely, the online fan base
Taboo infringement and layered comedy : a linguistic analysis of convolution in Gervais and Merchant's Life's Too Short
No full textWhat follows is a qualitative, linguistic analysis of layered comic
techniques used by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in the
British comedy series Life’s Too Short. Because each episode
revolves round Warwick Davis, an actor with restricted growth, or
dwarfism, the likelihood of taboo infringement and of consequent
offence is considerable. One of the ways in which this risk is diluted
in contemporary comedy is through the process of ‘convolution’, a
multiple layering of comic effects that can attenuate offensiveness
in two possible ways: either by increasing a sense of ridiculousness,
or by being so tangled as to make it difficult for viewers to identify
with any certainty the point of the comedy. Referring to aspects of
conversation analysis like politeness and facework theory, and to
facets of mediated interaction, chiefly participation framework, this
paper considers how the writers exploit workplace interactions,
service encounters and media interactions in the docucomedy
format to multiply the convolutions round this sensitive subject
Language, discourse and action in professional practice : ALAPP 2015 : pre-conference proceedings
No full textMedia and politics : discourses, cultures, and practices : University of Milan (Italy), 27th-28th May 2015 : pre-conference proceedings
No full textInstitutional English as a First and as a Second Language
No full textThe Plain English Campaign: come cambiare la comunicazione fra istituzioni e cittadini. L’inglese nella comunicazione italiana istituzionale via web
Bowling them over and over with wit: forms and functions of humor in live text cricket coverage
No full textAcademic analysis of sports journalism is typically conducted with reference to its role in issues like national (Beard 1998; Billig 1995; Polley 2004; Smith 2004) and gender (Benwell and Stokoe 2006) identity construction. Consequently much critical attention is given to the disproportionate seriousness with much sports journalism is produced and consumed. However, as written sports journalism has spilled over into the internet, it appears to have acquired a new remit: to simultaneously inform and entertain (Chapman 2012). This brief is largely achieved by virtue of the declaredly humorous manner in which that ‘serious’ subject matter is now mediated.
This contribution proposes to analyse the types of humorous writing techniques found in over-by-over commentary on a cricket test match in the online version of a national newspaper. A related focus will be on the social functions underlying the repertoire of techniques used in the accompanying online interactions
The Narrative and Obsession with the Game Remains
Get PDFThe Narrative and Obsession with the Game Remains
A conversation with David Peace
(14 September 2015)
By Dermot Heane
Negotiating communicative style, situational context and TT models in advanced cultural mediation pedagogy: a case study from Italian-English translation
Get PDFL2 translation is increasingly viewed as a legitimate and consolidated area of research within
Translation Studies. In this paper, the feasibility of training L2 translators as cultural mediators is examined. The
analysis is presented in the form of a case study of advanced L2 students translating from Italian into English.
This sample was assessed primarily in terms of cultural mediation. Given this emphasis, the source text (ST) was
taken from the domain of cultural information for the general public. The principal assessment criterion was the
source language (SL) conventional metaphor “percorso”, a pervasive JOURNEY metaphor, widely used in that
domain. This trope was chosen because it combines significant source culture (SC) attitudes to communicative
style and expresses values attributed to official culture itself. The paper analyses how students responded to the
challenge of negotiating between SC values, situational context, possible target language (TL) models and
legitimate target text (TT) reader expectations. The sample is then assessed referring to Bennett's (1993)
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. Significantly different levels of cultural competence emerged,
and these accounted for important differences in the effectiveness of the translations. On the basis of this
preliminary case study, a tentative model of advanced L2 cultural mediators is proposed
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