Universität zu Köln

Egetenmeyer, Jakob ORCID: 0000-0003-2394-9545 (2021). Genre Determining Prediction: Non-Standard TAM Marking in Football Language. Frontiers in Communication, 6. pp. 1-18. ISSN 2297-900X

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Abstract

German and French football language display tense-aspect-mood (TAM) forms which differ from the TAM use in other genres. In German football talk, the present indicative may replace the pluperfect subjunctive. In French reports of football matches, the imperfective past may occur instead of a perfective past tense-aspect form. We argue that the two phenomena share a functional core and are licensed in the same way, which is a direct result of the genre they occur in. More precisely, football match reports adhere to a precise script and specific events are temporally determined in terms of objective time. This allows speakers to exploit a secondary function of TAM forms, namely, they shift the temporal perspective. We argue that it is on the grounds of the genre that comprehenders predict the deviating forms and are also able to decode them. In various corpus studies, we explore the functioning of these phenomena in order to gain insights into their distribution, grammaticalization and their functioning in discourse. Relevant factors are Aktionsart properties, rhetorical relations and their interaction with other TAM forms. This allows us to discuss coping mechanisms on the part of the comprehender. We broaden our understanding of the phenomena, which have only been partly covered for French and up to now seem to have been ignored in German.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Egetenmeyer, Jakob j.egetenmeyer@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-9545 100096324
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-546017
DOI:	10.3389/fcomm.2021.730914
Journal or Publication Title:	Frontiers in Communication
Volume:	6
Page Range:	pp. 1-18
Date:	2021
ISSN:	2297-900X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Collaborative Research Centers > CRC 1252: Prominence in Language > TP C02
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language football language, TAM, genre, prediction, temporal perspective, French imparfait, German present indicative, temporal discourse structure English
Funders:	DFG
Projects:	SFB 1252 Prominence in Language, Project-ID 281511265
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/54601