Abstract
The paper aims to build the structure of sports news reports by bridging them to pragmatics hence coming up with their pragmatic structure. Accordingly, two pragmatic concepts (viz. cooperative principle and speech acts) are believed to be helpful in performing this task. Moreover, the notion of dialectical relevance, developed by Walton (1995), is utilized. This is done by pragmatically analyzing eight news reports of different sports (football, tennis, formula1, and golf, respectively) taken from the BBC sports official website. The analysis is carried out by means of an eclectic model developed by the study itself to serve this aim. This type of analysis is supported by a statistical analysis to quantitatively validate its findings. The two types of analysis basically show that there are no major differences between the games analyzed as to employing the various strategies compiling the aforementioned analytic tool.
Highlights
1.1 The ProblemSimple as it might seem, the language of sports news reports does have a number of features shaping its distinctive “charisma”
The results recorded on this Table lead to drawing a number of conclusions the listing of which is the main concern of the following section
This is supported by the 100% which they all show. The justification behind such employment is that the probative link between the headline and lead strengthens the report as a whole, considering it the milestone on which everything is built later on. 4.2 Main Events Category 4.2.1 Scare Quotations There are no scare quotations found in the data under analysis, so no percentage is recorded in this component. 4.2.2 Reported Speech 4.2.2.1 Reporting Verb The four games reflect the reporter’s neutral standpoint owing to the use of “say” more than any other verb
Summary
Simple as it might seem, the language of sports news reports does have a number of features shaping its distinctive “charisma”. The unfolding of such features is the main concern of this paper. Sports news reports might be a sparse source of exhibiting linguistic stylistic variation. This is due to the kind of events they rest on, which allow no embellishment as done with other types (e.g., political). The pragmatic structure of sports news reports is constructed in a way that accords with the aim of this paper. The workability of the model is tested by analyzing eight reports on different sports taken from the BBC sports official website
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