A Spoken Genre Gets Written

Written Communication Apr 2008 Open Access

Carmen Pérez-Sabater Universitat Politècnica de València ; Gemma Peña-Martínez Universitat Politècnica de València ; Ed Turney Universitat Politècnica de València ; Begoña Montero-Fleta Universitat Politècnica de València

Abstract

Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports commentary. The examples analyzed are from two English, two French, and two Spanish online football (soccer) commentaries. The purpose of the study is to examine oral traits and genre mixing in online football commentaries in the three languages and carryover from the spoken genres of radio and television commentaries to this developing genre, following Ferguson. Special attention is paid to Web page design. The study reveals that form and content of online football commentaries are strongly affected by the style of the online newspaper.

Journal: Written Communication
Published: 2008-04-01
DOI: 10.1177/0741088307313174
Open Access: OA PDF Green
Topics: multimodality voice and style affect and writing

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