Detailed Information on Publication Record
2010
Making fun to pass the time: Conversational humour in live text commentary
CHOVANEC, JanBasic information
Original name
Making fun to pass the time: Conversational humour in live text commentary
Name in Czech
Konverzační humor v žánru sportovní publicistiky online
Authors
CHOVANEC, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
ESSE 10 - 10th Conference of the European Society for teh Study of English, 2010
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher
Italy
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/10:00051430
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech)
humor; analýza diskurzu; sportovní publicistika online; jazyk a média; konverzační humor
Keywords in English
humour; discourse analysis; online sports commentary; language and the media; conversational humour; joking
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 11/4/2012 17:02, prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
The presentation analyses joint construction of humour in live text commentaries (LTC). This new genre fo online journalism, combining live sports commentary and internet chat, is characterized by quasi-conversational dialogical exchanges between the commentator and readers. Humour is manifested in various rhetorical devices, such as word play, hyperbole and similes, as well as the structural arrangement of some dialogues, where the interlocutors become the targets of joking, teasing and even personal affronts. The linguistic creativity and orientation towards humour in LTC are explained as strategies for the enactment of gendered (male) identity within virtual groups of sports fans.