The Language of Football Commentaries in British English and Egyptian Arabic: A Contrastive Study

Abstract

The language of football commentary is a field worth researching due to the extensive media coverage of most football sporting events, the significant financial investments made in that field, and the huge audience obsessed with all football events . Comparative studies of football commentary in Egyptian Arabic and British English very rarely analyze systematic areas. The subject of the current study is an example of a type of monologic discourse in which the audience is not also physically present with the commentator , and thus the commentator is unable to communicate verbally or nonverbally with the remote home viewers. The current research reveals accumulative levels of interpretation between English and Arabic football commentaries according to lexical, syntactical, and pragmatic features sequentially. The current work is distinguished by its thorough examination of pragmatic characteristics and how they relate to other aspects in their context. The study displays how the three aspects interact to fulfill certain discoursal functions. In terms of the nature and characteristics of this type of discourse, the current study comes to some important findings. The Arabic examples offer more convincing evidence in favour of the use of illocutionary speech act models. The audience is drawn in by the Arabic commentary since it is more intriguing and appealing. In comparison, the majority of English samples use the locutionary speech act force .However, English commentary frequently favors the reporting strategy over the interactive situation. The comparative analysis of the English and Arabic