Linguistic Aspects of eSports Commentary

Student: Faradzhev Bakir

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

As the growth of the internet enabled more connections around the world, gaming was an inevitable addition. eSports became an important part of many people’s life’s and right now considered to be one of the fastest pace growing phenomena. This work analyzes the register variance of eSports commentary. The first part of this work presents theory behind linguistic features used in sports and eSports commentary. Features of the register of sports commentary are presented, and sport commentary register markers are defined. In the following part eSports commentary is analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, the results of the analysis are interpreted and compared to sports commentary. The communicative situations of sports and eSports commentary will be described in detail. Finally, it will be concluded whether eSports commentary is a sub-register of sports commentary.

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