Športová komunikácia v prieniku sociolingvistických perspektív
Sports Communication in Overlapping Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes speech performance of the coach of the football team of the older-school age boys in the East Slovakian village of Demjata during two training units. The analysis is based on the authentic video and audio records of the coach´s speech and their transcripts. Theoretically, the study is based on the sociolinguistic theories of register, stratification and lexical motivation. Illocutionary centre of coach´s speech, addressing and the way of personal reference are in coincidence with the prototypical qualities of coach-communicative register. The main variety used in the coach´s speech performance is the East-Slovak sub-standard variety with the code-shifting towards inter-dialect and (less) towards East-Slovak variant of common standard variety. Lexicon based on the register motivation (on the basis of standard and common standard Slovak) keeps the coach´s speech in the area of sub-standard variety and does not allow switching the code to inter-dialect or dialect. Lexicon based on register motivation thus becomes the systematizing phenomenon of variety performance.

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