What is it about?
This article examines how grammatical cohesive devices such as references, conjunctions, substitution, and ellipsis are used in online minute-by-minute football commentary (OMBMFC). Drawing on M. A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan’s cohesion theory, the study analyzes commentaries from The Guardian to show how commentators create coherence, avoid repetition, and maintain textual flow within the fast-paced environment of live football reporting. The article also highlights OMBMFC as an interactive digital genre shaped by immediacy, audience participation, and entertainment.
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Why is it important?
Our study contributes to scholarship on digital sports communication and discourse analysis by showing how grammatical cohesion helps make online football commentary coherent, engaging, and understandable in fast-paced digital environments. It also highlights how online sports journalism adapts language to meet the demands of immediacy, interactivity, and audience participation within emerging digital communication genres.
Perspectives
As a football fan and someone who enjoys playing the game myself, I was fascinated by how commentators are able to create entertaining yet coherent interactions within the fast-paced environment of football. What I found particularly interesting was how grammatical cohesive devices help commentators organize rapidly unfolding events while still maintaining audience engagement and textual flow. The study also deepened my interest in how emerging online sports genres reshape communication practices and language use in contemporary digital media.
Cornelius Fuumaale Suom-Kogle
Michigan Technological University
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This page is a summary of: Grammatical Cohesion in Online Minute-By-Minute Football Commentary, E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, April 2024, Noyam Publishers,
DOI: 10.38159/ehass.2024548.
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