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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/8239| Title: | "While the Ball is in the Air”: Metaphors and Humor in the 2018 World Cup Commentaries. | Authors: | Bekar, Mira & Takovski, Aleksandar | Keywords: | football commentaries, metaphors, humour, match colouring | Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | Faculty of Philology "Blazhe Koneski", Skopje | Source: | Bekar, M. & Takovski, A. (online edition 2020). “While the Ball is in the Air”: Metaphors and Humor in the 2018 World Cup Commentaries. Proceedings of the ESIDRP International Conference 2019: English Studies at the Interface of Disciplines: Research and Practice (ESIDRP). Skopje: Ss Cyril and Methodius University | Abstract: | Metaphors and humour are pervasive elements occurring in many spoken genres, among which, the genre of sport commentaries. Football commentators tend to use war metaphors to highlight the competitive nature of the sport while at the same time making the spectacle and its communication more exciting and vivid (Charteris-Black 2004; Nordin 2008). Punning and humour are additionally used as strategies to engage the audience into the game (Chovanec, 2005). In this respect our research tends to analyze the use of metaphors and humour by Macedonian TV commentators during the World Cup 2018 and discuss their role and contribution to the ‘vividness’ of the sports language. | Description: | Proceedings from the ESIDRP Conference 2019, English Department, Faculty of Philology "Blazhe Koneski" (in print-online-expected June 2020) | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/8239 |
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