Text sex with Becks : Football celebrities, tabloid news and
the spectacle of language

C 2018

Text sex with Becks : Football celebrities, tabloid news and the spectacle of language

CHOVANEC, Jan

Basic information

Original name

Text sex with Becks : Football celebrities, tabloid news and the spectacle of language

Name in Czech

Sexting s Beckhamem : Fotbalové celebrity, bulvární tisk a jazyk jako skandální podívaná

Authors

CHOVANEC, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. London, AESTHETICS, POETICS, AND RHETORIC OF SOCCER, p. 200-226, 27 pp. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society, 2018

Publisher

Routledge

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101976

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-0-8153-8573-8

UT WoS

000452824500012

Keywords (in Czech)

poetika; fotbal; britská média; jazyk médií; texting; sexting; humor; tabu; bulvární tisk; David Beckham

Keywords in English

poetics; sexting; soccer scandals; popular media; wordplay; humour; taboo; tabloid; David Beckham

Abstract

V originále

The paper analyses the humorous treatment of the David Beckham scandals in the British press, focusing on various poetic devices such as word play, punning, creative coinages and allusion to taboo. It argues that readers may find a disarming pleasure in the spectacularly playful - and playfully spectacular - tabloid discourse about morally questionable non-footballing acts committed by football celebrities. Often contrasting the celebrities' open frontstage performance with their actual backstage behaviour, this kind of discourse relativizes the distinctions between reality and fiction, seriousness and non-seriousness, and the private and public spheres. With respect to taboo and sex-related topics, the popular press tends to present the readers with a semantic puzzle in order to titillate them, while flaunting the media's own blatant moralistic attitudes.

Links

ROZV/24/FF/KAA/2018, interní kód MU

Name: Internacionalizace publikací 2018 - KAA

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Internal development projects

Citovat

CHOVANEC, Jan. Text sex with Becks : Football celebrities, tabloid news and the spectacle of language. In Askin, R; Diederich, C; Bieri, A. AESTHETICS, POETICS, AND RHETORIC OF SOCCER. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2018, p. 200-226. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society. ISBN 978-0-8153-8573-8.

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CHOVANEC, Jan. Text sex with Becks : Football celebrities, tabloid news and the spectacle of language. In Askin, R; Diederich, C; Bieri, A. \textit{AESTHETICS, POETICS, AND RHETORIC OF SOCCER}. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2018, p.~200-226. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society. ISBN~978-0-8153-8573-8.

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