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@article{1322510,
author = {Chovanec, Jan},
article_number = {April},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.01.011},
keywords = {participation framework; broadcast talk; unintended humour; footing; casual conversation; eavesdropper; Erving Goffman; pragmatics},
language = {eng},
issn = {0378-2166},
journal = {Journal of Pragmatics},
title = {Eavesdropping on media talk : Microphone gaffes and unintended humour in sports broadcasts},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216616000229},
volume = {95},
year = {2016}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1322510
AU - Chovanec, Jan
PY - 2016
TI - Eavesdropping on media talk : Microphone gaffes and unintended humour in sports broadcasts
JF - Journal of Pragmatics
VL - 95
IS - April
SP - 93-106
EP - 93-106
PB - Elsevier
SN - 03782166
KW - participation framework
KW - broadcast talk
KW - unintended humour
KW - footing
KW - casual conversation
KW - eavesdropper
KW - Erving Goffman
KW - pragmatics
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216616000229
L2 - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216616000229
N2 - This paper deals with the phenomenon of the ‘microphone gaffe’ in the context of sports broadcast talk. This peculiar communicative event is characterized by the public mediation of live talk to media audiences without the speakers being aware that they are actually on air. Adopting a general pragmatic perspective, this paper analyses the microphone gaffe in terms of its specific participation framework and discusses its humorous potential. It is argued that the key element underlying these communicative situations consists of the momentary non-acknowledgement of the media audiences by the speakers. The audience, repositioned as non-participants, actually find themselves in the role of the ‘eavesdropper’ on a private conversation. On the production side of the communicative scheme, the mistaken belief in enjoying this momentary ‘private’ speech event is accompanied by a shift of footing, where the commentators’ institutional identities become replaced with their non-public personas, evidenced by forms of backstage talk that contrasts with their frontstage performance. This paper proposes that in case of microphone gaffes, humorous effect arises from the various incongruities between the actual and the presumed footings, as well as from the subsequent recontextualizations that enclose the original communicative act within an additional communicative level. The aim of the paper is to propose and elaborate a general theoretical framework for the analysis of unintended humour in media discourse.
ER -
CHOVANEC, Jan. Eavesdropping on media talk : Microphone gaffes and unintended humour in sports broadcasts. \textit{Journal of Pragmatics}. Elsevier, 2016, vol.~95, April, p.~93-106. ISSN~0378-2166. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.01.011.
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