Juncture points and verbo-visual asynchronicity in televised sports broadcasts
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The presentation considers the relationship between the verbal and the visual channels in televised sports commentary as a specific genre of broadcast talk. The presentation explores how juncture points, characterized by the momentary merging of the verbal and the visual channels, are managed discursively. It looks at how the switch from elaboration to description is achieved in terms of metalinguistic signals, how the verbal and the visual channels momentarily correlate, and how the two eventually depart again, e.g. with the original topic resumed or a new topic elaborated on. The analysis reveals, among other, that some juncture points (particularly during the pre-match commentary) are characterized by the spoken utterances being out-of-sync with the visual image, with the commentator reacting to some visual input with a significant time delay. |
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