Chapter published in:
The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary
Jan Chovanec
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 297] 2018
► pp. 17–32

Chapter 2
Conventionalized patterns of language variation

Article outline
  • 2.1Genre, structures and social interaction
  • 2.2Registers and systemic functional linguistics
  • 2.3Register variation and text types
  • 2.4From register to genre – the theory of context and generic structures
  • 2.5Genres as non-linguistically defined constructs
  • 2.6Genre as interaction
  • 2.7Genre discreteness and variability
  • 2.8Concluding remarks