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Sprawozdanie piłkarskie – u źródeł gatunku
Football Report – At the Source of a Genre

Author(s): Rafał Siekiera
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: sports report; journalistic genres; Przegląd Sportowy; Polish interwar press

Summary/Abstract: The article characterizes the football match reports published in Sports Review in 1921. An analysis of the material collected reveals a number of characteristics in the interwar text, i.e., limited imagery, concreteness/discursive juxtaposition, the use of the present tense in describing the game, open (sometimes expressive) evaluation of the individual players’ performance and the teams’ abilities, as well as a missionary style of reporting, in which the journalist takes up universal issues regarding football, sports and physical culture. The analysis outlines the differences between old-time and contemporary realizations of the genre.

  • Issue Year: 28/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 179-193
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish