eprintid: 31581
rev_number: 11
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datestamp: 2022-05-03 14:21:44
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type: article
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creators_name: Reber, Elisabeth
title: On the variation of fragmental constructions in British English and American English post-match interviews
subjects: ddc-820
divisions: i-90200
keywords: American English, British English, fragmental constructions, post-match, football interviews, online syntax, enregisterment, communities of practice
abstract: This article takes a cognitive, interactional perspective on pluricentricity and examines the use of fragmental constructions in a mid-sized dataset, drawing on recordings of British English and American English post-match interviews (PMIs), i.e. media interviews conducted with football players after matches in the British and North American top leagues. It examines what types of fragmental constructions are deployed in the PMIs and whether the use and distribution of such constructions vary between the British and American “communities of practice” (Lave/Wenger 1991). The study finds that the quantity and quality of fragments largely differ, with the British English data showing a higher relative frequency of fragmental constructions, more grammatical variation, and a use of fragmental constructions which do not necessarily draw on latent grammatical structures from the prior speech for meaning-making. It has been suggested by Biber et al. (1999) that clausal elliptical structures are generally less typical of American English. The present genre-specific analysis suggests an interdependence between fragmental constructions and their routinisation and frozenness, interactional constraints, as well as deviant sports and media cultures shared by these communities of practice, which can be treated as a form of “enregisterment” (Agha 2007).
date: 2021
publisher: De Gruyter
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00031581
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0011
ppn_swb: 1805155512
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-315816
language: eng
bibsort: REBERELISAONTHEVARIA2021
full_text_status: public
publication: Sociolinguistica
volume: 35
number: 1
pagerange: 217-241
issn: 0933-1883 (Druck-Ausg.); 1865-939X (Online-Ausg.)
citation:   Reber, Elisabeth  (2021) On the variation of fragmental constructions in British English and American English post-match interviews.  Sociolinguistica, 35 (1).  pp. 217-241.  ISSN 0933-1883 (Druck-Ausg.); 1865-939X (Online-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/31581/1/10.1515_soci-2021-0011.pdf