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Publication details [#57706]

Adetunji, Akin. 2013. A discursive construction of teasing in football fandom: The context of the South-Western Nigerian viewing center. Discourse & Society 24 (2) : 147–162.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | mocking | pragmatics | sports language | teasing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how fandom teasing, as realized in the South-Western Nigerian viewing center by Nigerian fans of the English Premier League (EPL), from a pragmatic perspective, constitutes an essentially face-supportive, macro-level realization of ‘jocular mockery’.