What is it about?
Journalists are prone to address the reader(s) in their sports commentaries: "As you could see, Ibrahimovic did not have a lucky day yesterday". Sometimes they use plausible questions and answers as a way to involve the reader(s) . "What about Larsson? Well, it is not worth mentioning." This feature is more conspicuous in articles from 2004 than in those from 1957 and 1974.
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Why is it important?
It is the first article to show the strong tendency to involve the reader(s) in a dialogue, and this feature makes the sports language entertaining and vivacious.
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I have been an active researcher on the language used in newspapers for more than twenty years. I am currently writing an essay on gender differences in sports language.
Dr Barbro G Lundin
University of Learning and Communication, Jönköping
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This page is a summary of: Dialogue features in football articles over a period of fifty years, Language and Dialogue, November 2013, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ld.3.3.04lun.
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