Chapter 1.Introduction
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1.1Setting the scene: News on the go
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1.2Locating sites of interaction
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1.3Aims of the work
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1.4Points of departure and points of contact
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1.5Overview of chapters
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Part I.Locating LTC
Chapter 2.Conventionalized patterns of language variation
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2.1Genre, structures and social interaction
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2.2Registers and systemic functional linguistics
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2.3Register variation and text types
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2.4From register to genre – the theory of context and gen. structures
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2.5Genres as non-linguistically defined constructs
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2.6Genre as interaction
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2.7Genre discreteness and variability
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2.8Concluding remarks
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Chapter 3.The linguistics of sports commentary
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3.1Unscripted commentary
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3.2Sports announcer talk
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3.3Unplanned spoken language – on-line description
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3.4Levels of commentary
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3.5Concluding remarks
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Chapter 4.Live texts, blogging and journalism
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4.1Basic characteristics of blogs
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4.2Live blogs and interactive journalism
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4.3The live blog as a framing text
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4.4Live blog as a discourse colony
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4.5From text/discourse colony to colony of genres
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4.6Referring to (live) blogs in the data
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4.7Naming live text commentaries
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4.8Concluding remarks
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Part II.Analysing LTC
Chapter 5.Material and characterization of data
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5.1Material for analysis
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5.2Composition of the corpus
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5.3General characterization of the data
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5.4LTC between blogs and news reports
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5.5Previous research
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5.6Types of live text commentaries
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5.7Participation framework
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5.8Concluding remarks
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Chapter 6.Structuring LTC: The event and liveness
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6.1Nested structures
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6.2Structural organization of the entire LTC
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6.3Linear structure of the textual part of LTC
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6.4Temporal organization: The liveness of the event
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6.5Concluding remarks
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Chapter 7.From pre-match to post-match commentary
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7.1Parts of commentary: a general overview
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7.2The pre-match commentary: Laying the ground
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7.3The match (play-by-play) commentary: Describing the real thing
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7.4The post-match commentary: Summarizing and trailing off
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7.5Concluding remarks
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Chapter 8.Managing event discontinuities
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8.1Event discontinuities
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8.2Temporal organization of LTC at half time
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8.3Posts at half time
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8.4Marking boundaries in half-time commentary
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8.5Formulating transitions in boundary posts
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8.6Formulating game resumption after half-time
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8.7Multiple encodings of boundary points
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8.8Signing off from commentary at half time
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8.9Concluding remarks
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Part III.Interacting through LTC
Chapter 9.Creating co-presence
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9.1Articulating immediacy
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9.2Features of spoken broadcast commentary
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9.3General features of spoken language
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9.4Constructing shared space
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9.5Concluding remarks
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Chapter 10.Threading and narrative layers: From interactivity to interaction
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10.1Triggering participation
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10.2Patterns of interaction – threading
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10.3Dialogic structuring of voices
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10.4Narrative layers
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10.5Concluding remarks
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Chapter 11.Conclusion
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11.1Research questions revisited
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11.2Discussion and outlooks
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