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. 187–225

Chapter 9
Creating co-presence

Article outline
  • 9.1Articulating immediacy
    • Interactiveness and quasi-interaction
    • Spoken features in LTC
  • 9.2Features of spoken broadcast commentary
    • 9.2.1Usage of tenses
    • 9.2.2Simplification and ellipsis
    • 9.2.3Inversion
    • 9.2.4Routines
    • 9.2.5Heavy modifiers
    • 9.2.6Other: Summarizing formulations
  • 9.3General features of spoken language
    • 9.3.1Graphology and prosody
      • Strikethrough
      • Asterisked comments
      • Hyperlinking
      • Replication (of various forms and structures)
    • 9.3.2Lexical phenomena
    • 9.3.3Syntactic phenomena
      • Imperatives
      • Sentence dislocation – tails (tag position)
      • Repetition
      • Multiple coordination
      • Subject ellipsis
      • Constructional principles of spoken language: Self-correction
    • 9.3.4Pragmatic features
      • Demonstratives as intensifiers
      • Demonstratives for common knowledge
      • Metareferences
      • Inferential evaluation
      • (Colloquial) address forms
    • 9.3.5Rhetorical devices
      • Exaggeration
      • Simile
      • Metaphor
    • 9.3.6Dialogic features
      • Heteroglossia
      • (Pseudo-)dialogicality
  • 9.4Constructing shared space
    • 9.4.1The temporal (non-spatial) ‘here’
    • 9.4.2The reference to a (current) point of the event
    • 9.4.3Unspecified physical location
    • 9.4.4The commentator’s unspecified non-physical location
    • 9.4.5The recipients’ specified physical location
    • 9.4.6An explicit marker of hypertextuality
    • 9.4.7A marker of text-external content – hypertextuality
    • 9.4.8A marker of discourse deixis
    • 9.4.9The self-referential ‘here’
    • 9.4.10Authorial self-reference
  • 9.5Concluding remarks