Attitudinal positioning in football matches live text commentaries

Abstract EN

The present research aims at explicating the attitudinal positioning in the discourse of football matches live text commentaries in terms of Martin and White's Appraisal Theory (2005).

To this end, a corpus of about (11927) words representing the live text commentaries of the top four matches of world cup 2018 was chosen.

Results have shown that the Attitudinal System of the Appraisal Theory has a great explanatory power as it helps revealing not only the overt evaluations but also the covert ones.

The categories of judgment and appreciation prevail pervasively in the discourse of live text commentaries.

However, the affect category fails to appear actively.