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Conversational Humour and Joint Fantisizing in Online Journalism

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Citation:	CHOVANEC, Jan. Conversational Humour and Joint Fantisizing in Online Journalism (Conversational Humour and Joint Fantisizing in Online Journalism). In Chovanec, Jan and Isabel Ermida (eds.). Chovanec, Jan and Isabel Ermida (eds.) Language and Humour in the Media. 1. vyd. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. p. 139-161, 23 pp. Neuveden. ISBN 1-4438-3894-2.Export BibTeX @inbook{955945, author = {Chovanec, Jan}, address = {Newcastle upon Tyne}, booktitle = {Chovanec, Jan and Isabel Ermida (eds.) Language and Humour in the Media}, edition = {1.}, editor = {Chovanec, Jan and Isabel Ermida (eds.)}, keywords = {live blogging; blogs; humour; conversational humour; language in the media; language of sportscasting; pseudo conversation; quasi-conversation; interpersonal function; ideational function; solidarity; bonding; language and football; football linguistics}, howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"}, language = {eng}, location = {Newcastle upon Tyne}, isbn = {1-4438-3894-2}, pages = {139-161}, publisher = {Cambridge Scholars Publishing}, title = {Conversational Humour and Joint Fantisizing in Online Journalism}, url = {http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Language-and-Humour-in-the-Media1-4438-3894-2.htm}, year = {2012} }
Original language:	English
Field:	Linguistics
WWW:	http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Language-and-Humour-in-the-Media1-4438-3894-2.htm
Type:	Chapter of a book
Keywords:	live blogging; blogs; humour; conversational humour; language in the media; language of sportscasting; pseudo conversation; quasi-conversation; interpersonal function; ideational function; solidarity; bonding; language and football; football linguistics

The article deals with humour construction in online newspapers. Analysing the new interactive genre of live sports commentary, it documents how humour is produced through incongruities, allusion and irony as well as co-constructed in quasi-conversational interaction between the journalist and his online audiences. It is argued that humour is crucial not only for enhancing the interpersonal dimension, i.e., building up solidarity within the virtual group of followers, but als for providing entertainment in dull moments of the game, thus having a compensatory function with respect of the ideational dimension. The quasi-conversational nature of the genre makes it possible for the audience to get involved in collective humour and even in joint fantasizing. The analysis is a case study of a report on a high-profile international football match for the online version of the Guardian newspaper.