Appropriating live televised football through talk / by Cornelia Gerhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerhardt, Cornelia.

Series:

Studies in Pragmatics 13.

Studies in pragmatics ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal communication.

Sequence (Linguistics).

Television broadcasting of sports--Social aspects.

Television broadcasting of sports.

Television viewers.

Sports--Language.

Sports.

Soccer fans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Video-recordings of families and groups of friends watching the FIFA men’s football World Cup in their homes allow access to the empirical rather than the imagined or inscribed audiences of a major television event. Qualitative analyses reveal how natural audiences behave in the reception situation appropriating live televised football through talk. Gerhardt shows how the mainly English television viewers use an array of linguistic and embodied resources to turn watching football into a meaningful activity in their groups. Cohesive devices and sequentiality link the fans’ talk-in-interaction to the televised text (commentary and pictures). Gaze behaviour, pointing, and even jumping up and down are used as resources for a variety of functions like the construction of an identity as football fan.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 Introduction

2 Cohesion

3 Interactionality

4 Focus on the Broadcast Game

5 Other Signs of Involvement by the Viewers

6 Conclusion

Appendix: Index of Transcripts

Bibliography

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004280595

9004280596

OCLC:

918997396

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004280595 DOI