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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459819203321

Autore

Gerhardt Cornelia

Titolo

Appropriating live televised football through talk / / by Cornelia Gerhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-28059-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Studies in Pragmatics, , 1750-368x ; ; Volume 13

Disciplina

302.2345

Soggetti

Interpersonal communication

Sequence (Linguistics)

Television broadcasting of sports - Social aspects

Television viewers

Sports - Language

Soccer fans

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cohesion -- 3 Interactionality -- 4 Focus on the Broadcast Game -- 5 Other Signs of Involvement by the Viewers -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix: Index of Transcripts -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Video-recordings of families and groups of friends watching the FIFA men’s football World Cup in their homes allow access to the empirical rather than the imagined or inscribed audiences of a major television event. Qualitative analyses reveal how natural audiences behave in the reception situation appropriating live televised football through talk. Gerhardt shows how the mainly English television viewers use an array of linguistic and embodied resources to turn watching football into a meaningful activity in their groups. Cohesive devices and sequentiality link the fans’ talk-in-interaction to the televised text (commentary and pictures). Gaze behaviour, pointing, and even jumping up and down are used as resources for a variety of functions like the construction of an identity as football fan.