Fele2021

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Fele2021
BibType ARTICLE
Key Fele2021
Author(s) Giolo Fele, Gian Marco Campagnolo
Title Expertise and the work of football match analysts in TV sport broadcasts
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Tag(s) EMCA, Punditry, Expertise, Match analysis, Broadcast talk, Football
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Year 2021
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 23
Number 5
Pages 616-635
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DOI 10.1177/14614456211016799
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Abstract

In this paper we describe expertise as a way of seeing. We use match analysis `punditry’ as a setting to show how professional vision is interactionally achieved in TV sport broadcasts through environmentally coupled gestures enhanced by camera actions and a new technology of vision called telestrator. The paper is based on data from video sequences of (English) football TV broadcasts where the pundit shows to the TV host in the studio and to the non-expert audience at home what happened during a football match. We argue that the transparency of seeing is the product of an artfully instructed process whereby the pundit shows what should be seen, how it should be made accountable, and what the audience should expect in order to fully appreciate what they see. The paper shows how broadcasted match analysis expertise interactionally achieves this through the time-critical linking of talk, gesture, and technological environment.

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