Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | CHOVANEC, Jan. Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts. In Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.). Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions. 1st ed. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015, p. 67-95. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 256. ISBN 978-90-272-5661-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.256.04cho. |
| Description | This paper applies and develops Goffman's notion of embedded interactions and their participant arrangements by identifying several distinct interactional frames found in modern media genres. Using data from online sports commentaries, the article documents how the individual frames of interaction are represented and linguistically reflected in the written text of the commentary and how the existence of such frames affects the participation framework of the entire communicative act. The analysis distinguishes between horizontal interactions, occurring on the level of the interactants within a specific frame, and vertical interactions, which cut across the boundaries of the communicative frames and which may be addressed to fictitious and non-present as well as real recipients. |
| Related projects: |