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By Mikhail Kissine

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Query:   Discourse Analysis of Football (Soccer) Commentators
Author:  Neda Bimesl
Submitter Email:  click here to access email
Linguistic LingField(s):   Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics

Summary:   There are several corpora that include spoken football commentaries:

1.) London-Lund Corpus (LLc): text 10.2:
http://khnt.hit.uib.no/icame/manuals/londlund/ll.htm

2.) British National Corpus (BNC): S_sportslive, two texts, HEY and
HMN:
http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

3.) A website which provides football games, videos and highlights
through torrent downloading:
http://www.footytorrents.co.uk/

4.) More over, there is the Kicktionary, a multilingual electronic
dictionary of football language:
http://www.kicktionary.de/index.html

5.) Lavric, Eva, Gerhard Pisek, Andrew Skinner, Wolfgang Stadler
(eds.). 2008. "The Linguistics of Football," in Language in Performance
(28). Tübingen:
Gunter Narr Verlag.

http://books.google.com/books?
id=heFduFfVSSIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&ca
d=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

6.) In the book listed above is this chapter:

Richard, Arnaud. 2008. "Football Televised Commentaries:
Descriptions, Narrations & Representations of a Non-Victory (The
European Championship Final 1976 – Bayern Munich vs. AS St-
Étienne)," in Eva Lavric, Gerhard Pisek, Andrew Skinner, Wolfgang
Stadler (eds.), The Linguistics of Football, in Language in Performance
(28), 193-202. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Link to chapter:
http://web.me.com/arrnoo/discrimi-
nations/Articles/Entr%C3%A9es/2009/12/20_paysage_avec_vue_sur_la
_mer.html

7.) The MA dissertation at Lancaster University back in 2006, written
by Maria Georgalou:

Georgalou, Maria. (2009) "The Discursive Construction of National
Identity in Media Sport: The Case of Greece at Euro 2004." MA
Dissertation, Lancaster University, UK (2006). Saarbrücken: VDM
Verlag Dr. Müller.

8.) Moreover, there is David Caldwell's BA (Hons) thesis, Deakin
University, Melbourne, "On the language of Footballer's postmatch
interviews."

LL Issue: 21.1837
Date Posted: 15-Apr-2010
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