Colloquialization Processes in the 20th Century

The Role of Discourse Markers in the Evolution of Sports Announcer Talk in Peninsular Spanish

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5900069
AutoresShima Salameh Jiménez (0000-0002-1481-0210)
Año2025
Volumen10
Número7
Páginas172
Fecha de publicación2025-07-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages10070172
OpenAlexW4413061199
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas41

This paper analyzes 20th century colloquialization processes in Peninsular Spanish, in line with recent works addressing mass-media colloquialization. Previous studies suggest a change in sports-talk announcing towards a more informal model, which is supported by the incorporation of new linguistic features as well as by the influence of some external changes. In this context, this study delves into the role of discourse markers as a colloquialization parameter, as a growth in their employment has been detected since ca. 1990. To further explore the data, a manually compiled corpus has been transcribed and analyzed: our corpus consists of both radio and TV football-match recordings aired in Spain from 1980 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2024. These two big periods have been subdivided into five-year periods or micro-diachronies to allow for a more detailed analysis. Results reveal a consolidation of the use of discourse markers by sports announcers, contrasting with earlier broadcasts that tended to avoid them or that employed more formal discourse markers, typically related to written, planned discourses

Consolidation (business · Context (archaeology · Discourse marker · Football · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Journalism and Media Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · History