The Language of Football Match Reports in a Contrastive Perspective

Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell

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“…The language of sports in general, and of football in particular, has received some attention in (corpus) linguistic research, notably in the edited volumes by Lavic et al (2008) and Callies & Levin (2019). The current paper is largely inspired by the results from two studies from these volumes: Levin (2008) and Ebeling (2019).…”

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“…Finally, both Levin (2008) and Ebeling (2019) note that frequently occurring sequences typically refer to goals (not) scored. This is commonly done by sequences including net/nettet 'the net' and goal/mål.…”

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“…For an overview of the clubs and corpus texts, see Tables A and B in the Appendix. A more detailed description of the compilation process of the ENMaRC can be found in Ebeling (2019).…”

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Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports

Ebeling¹

2021

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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This contrastive study examines the use of two time expressionson # minutes and etter # minutes 'after # minutes'in football match reports with the aim of shedding light on their conditions of use in English and Norwegian. The cross-linguistic findings suggest that the patterns are typically used to report on the achievements of players. With regard to syntax, the English pattern is clearly preferred in final position, while the Norwegian pattern is found in either initial or final position, with a slight preference for initial position. A more inconclusive difference can be noted regarding the patterns' distribution across the 90 minutes; the English pattern is more evenly distributed across the two halves than the Norwegian one. Keywords: contrastive analysis, English/Norwegian, football match reports, time expressions Previous corpus-based contrastive research involving English and Norwegian has largely focused on the language of fiction, often on the basis of the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. 1 Less has been done on other text types, although several studies have emerged in recent years, such as Fløttum et al. (2006) on research articles in English, French and Norwegian, Hasselgård (2014), which includes English-Norwegian comparable newspaper data, and Rørvik & Monsen (2018) with comparable data from English and Norwegian research articles in the field of didactics. To further contribute to broadening the contrastive perspective with other text types, this paper investigates contrastive data from The English-Norwegian Match Report Corpus (ENMaRC). The ENMaRC is a comparable corpus consisting of written football match reports from two seasons in the English Premier League and the Norwegian Eliteserie (see further Section 3.1). Previous contrastive studies of English and Norwegian fiction texts have shown that time adverbials are frequent in both languages (Hasselgård 2014; Ebeling & Ebeling 2017). It has also been shown that time expressions abound in other text types, notably (oral) sports commentaries (Hasselgård 2010) and football match reports (Ebeling 2019).1 See e.g. the ENPC bibliography https:

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Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports

Ebeling¹

2021

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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“…: … Kripos have a good hope ...] that we will soon have this case solved." [ENPC+/JoNe2TE] Returning to the starting point of this study, and to the question of whether the prominent use of HOPE/HÅP(E) in negative contexts in match reports (Ebeling, 2019) reflects a true tendency of this genre in both languages and whether such use extends to other genres, we can conclude that the investigation uncovers some conflicting evidence in this respect. Both genre and language seem to have an impact, thus lending some support to the observations referred to above, namely that semantic prosody may be both language-and register-specific.…”

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“…In a previous contrastive study of English and Norwegian football match reports it was found that the cognate nouns HOPE and HÅP featured as keywords in texts reporting on defeat (Ebeling, 2019). The reason for this frequent use of HOPE and HÅP in the defeat section of the English-Norwegian Match Report Corpus (ENMaRC) was attributed to the items' frequent use in contexts where hopes are dashed, as in examples ( 1) and (2).…”

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Hope for the future: An analysis of HOPE/HÅP(E) across genres and languages

Ebeling¹

2021

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This article reports on a contrastive study of the cognate nouns and verbs hope and håp(e) that investigates their lexico-grammatical conditions of use in English vs. Norwegian fiction texts and football match reports. The complex dataset consists of material from a parallel corpus of fiction texts and a comparable corpus of football match reports. An interesting finding is that the verb use outnumbers the noun use in the fiction texts, whereas the noun use outnumbers the verb use in the match reports in both languages. Moreover, the analysis of the lemmas suggests that they have similar potential of use but with slightly different preferences, both across the genres and languages. It is also suggested that the English lemmas are more consistently used in negative contexts than the Norwegian ones. Finally, the method of combining data from two different types of contrastive corpora proved fruitful, as the results become more robust.

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To Score or to Score a Goal: Transitivity in Football Match Reports

Ebeling

2021

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This article investigates the use and non-use of objects with six transitive verbs in a corpus of English football match reports. The verbs were selected on the basis of their frequency as well as their lexico-grammatical features of "footballness" and transitivity. The study suggests that object omission may not be as pervasive as hinted at in previous studies (e.g. Bergh and Ohlander 2016; Ruppenhofer and Michaelis 2010). Regarding potential reasons for object omission, it is uncovered that the football verbs-net, save, play-are more prone to object omission than the general verbs: feed, create, take. This is attributed to the strong attraction of the former to recurrent collocates such as goal and ball. This suggests that verbs used to report on unremarkable and canonical situations (to the game of football) more readily omit the object, albeit not on a general basis, as individual differences between the verbs also emerge.

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The Language of Football Match Reports in a Contrastive Perspective

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Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports

Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports

Hope for the future: An analysis of HOPE/HÅP(E) across genres and languages

To Score or to Score a Goal: Transitivity in Football Match Reports

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