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An Analysis of the Metaphors in Football Commentary: A Case Study of the 2022 UEFA Champions League Final
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Abstract
Football is one of the most popular sports all over the world; however, there are limited seats inside the stadiums, making TV broadcasting an important tool for its popularity. Football commentators, therefore, need to transmit the active information of the game accurately and vividly. To add color to commentary, it is assumed that metaphor is widely used in their speech. As a result, this paper aims at analyzing metaphorical images in the commentary script of the 2022 UEFA Champions League Final. The procedure adopted is to survey the metaphoric images in the speech theoretically and to analyze certain sports texts pragmatically. After that, on the basis of sociolinguistics, analyze the functions of metaphor and their potential drawbacks. The results are as follows: Metaphor is heavily used by football commentators and helps make the game more exciting; it also has rhetorical and social functions. However, the use of metaphors in football commentary may cause language violence.
Keywords
Metaphor, Football Commentary, 2022 UCL Final, Sociolinguistics, Language Violence
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Luo,Z. (2024). An Analysis of the Metaphors in Football Commentary: A Case Study of the 2022 UEFA Champions League Final. Communications in Humanities Research,25,102-108.
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