A spoken genre gets written: Online football commentaries in English, French, and Spanish

Written Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-261

  Perez Sabater, Carmen ^a   Peña Martínez, Gemma ^a   Turney, Ed ^a   Montero Fleta, Begoña ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Electronic discourse; Football commentary; Informalization; Online newspaper; Orality

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749130819     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088307313174     Document Type: Article

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