List of figures
Figure 1.1Most viewed articles. The Guardian, 11 April 2010
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Figure 1.2Most viewed articles over a 7-day period. The Guardian, 13 March 2010
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Figure 2.1Components of registers
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Figure 2.2Elements of genre
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Figure 3.1Levels of commentary
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Figure 3.2The nature of the relation between commentary and action
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Figure 4.1The hybrid nature of weblogs
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Figure 4.2A framing blog for a series of live blogs. The Guardian. (Retrieved on 20 March 2012)
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Figure 4.3A blog framing other related texts (blogs and non-blogs). The Guardian. (Retrieved on 20 March 2012)
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Figure 4.4The framing use of blogs
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Figure 4.5Live commentary/play-by-play (www.fifa.com, 2014 FIFA World Cup)
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Figure 4.6‘Score tracker’ for cricket (www.espnstar.com)
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Figure 5.1The main differences between news reports and LTCs
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Figure 5.2Comparison of personal narratives and LTC
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Figure 5.3Live text commentary – simple text (Watford v. Crystal Palace, 26 September 2015, www.bbc.com)
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Figure 5.4Live text commentary (Watford v. Crystal Palace, 26 September 2015, The Independent)
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Figure 5.5Range of styles in the ‘live ticker’ subtype of LTC
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Figure 5.6Independent chat discussion appended to LTC
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Figure 5.7Recursiveness of interactional frames in live text commentary
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Figure 5.8Across-the-frame interaction in LTC
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Figure 6.1The nesting of structural components
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Figure 6.2Basic structural segments of LTC
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Figure 6.3Three structural component parts of sports live text commentary
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Figure 6.4Contemporaneity as a prerequisite for live commentary
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Figure 6.5Temporal relations between commentary and event
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Figure 6.6Deictic simultaneity between the event, text production and text reception (triple deictic centre simultaneity)
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Figure 6.7Deictic centre non-simultaneity in non-live texts (and repeated live broadcasts)
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Figure 6.8Dual indication of temporal deixis
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Figure 6.9Triple indication of temporal deixis
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Figure 10.1Witty caption as a trigger of play frame (Philipp Lahm is so small he uses half a broken eggshell for a coracle on his holidays)
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Figure 10.2Witty caption as a trigger of play frame (ITALIAN WORLD CUP NIGHTMARE (No 374 in a series of 2,387): Italy and Chile get the battle fever on in Santiago, 1962)
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Figure 10.3Visual trigger of play frame (A Japanese straight-shooter. The only Japanese straight-shooter)
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Figure 10.4Visual trigger of play frame (Diego Maradona: a man who knows how to holiday)
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Figure 10.5Visual metaphor
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Figure 10.6Literal visual representation of an image caption(The Dutch imploding)
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Figure 10.7A photoshopped visual trigger (Diego’s Argentinian Grill Photograph)
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Figure 10.8Wordplay and irony (The atmosphere is electric over in Baaaaaa-sle)
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Figure 10.9Extended set-up of the play frame: ‘visual-ornithological punnery’
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Figure 10.10Topic drift in natural conversation and the development and existence of parallel topics in LTC/chat
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Figure 10.11Parallel existence of multiple topic threads
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Figure 10.12Features of quasi-conversations compared to natural and fictional conversations
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Figure 10.13Intertwining of primary and secondary layers of narration in LTC
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Figure 10.14Key characteristics of primary and secondary layers
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