Making fun to pass the time: Conversational humour in live text commentary

CHOVANEC, Jan. Making fun to pass the time: Conversational humour in live text commentary. In ESSE 10 - 10th Conference of the European Society for teh Study of English. 2010.

Basic 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

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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

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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.