Jan Chovanec
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jan Chovanec is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2542-3851 | E‑ISSN 2542‑386X
The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary
Jan Chovanec
This book offers the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of live text commentary, one of the most innovative online genres of modern news media. The study focuses on written sports commentaries in online newspapers that enable partial real-time audience involvement in the media text. Adopting… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 297] 2018. xxii, 303 pp.
The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters
Edited by Villy Tsakona and Jan Chovanec
This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 7] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Representing the Other in European Media Discourses
Edited by Jan Chovanec and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
This book deals with the construction of the ‘other’ in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and social challenges. The aim of the book is to document the diverse discursive forms of othering, ranging from differentiation to discrimination, that… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 74] 2017. vi, 320 pp.
Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions
Edited by Marta Dynel and Jan Chovanec
This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 256] 2015. vi, 285 pp.
Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News: From canonical headlines to online news texts
Jan Chovanec
This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 253] 2014. xvi, 294 pp.
2024 Chapter 8. Performing branded affect in micro‑celebrity YouTube reaction videos Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 200–226 | Chapter
While significant attention has been paid to how social media influencers and content creators use diverse channels for self-presentation and self-promotion, there has been relatively less research into how they employ affective resources in on-screen interactions with their audiences. This… read more
2023 “The girl is on fire!”: Interactional humour in YouTube comments on the Notre Dame disaster The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, Linares Bernabéu, Esther (ed.), pp. 87–107 | Chapter
The article deals with online interactional humour in user comments on YouTube. Drawing on an extensive dataset of verbal reactions to a video discussing the (in)appropriateness of joking about the 2019 burning of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the analysis traces how online commenters… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Irony as counter positioning: Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter, Jobert, Manuel and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 165–194 | Chapter
This chapter examines how ironic utterances in forums are used for the purpose of collective positioning of the commenting readers in opposition to other groups. Approaching irony as an act of echoic interpretation, the analysis focuses on how readers echo both the representations made by the media… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Laughter and non-humorous situations in TV documentaries The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 155–180 | Chapter
In this paper, I explore the role of laughter in broadcast TV documentary programs. Although the primary design of many TV documentaries is to attend to the smooth transmission of information to the audience, some program formats include components of seemingly unscripted interpersonal interaction… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Investigating the dynamics of humor: Towards a theory of interactional humor The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter
While semanticopragmatic approaches to humor usually view it as stemming from incongruity, many current studies from fields such as discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and pragmatics have moved beyond to underline the significance of other factors defining humor. These factors include the… read more
2017 Chapter 10. From adverts to letters to the editor: External voicing in early sports match announcements Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 175–197 | Chapter
This article deals with external voicing in early news discourse, focusing on how the function of announcing future events was realised in letters to the editor and classified adverts, using data from the British daily newspaper The Times in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The… read more
2017 Chapter 10. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums Representing the Other in European Media Discourses, Chovanec, Jan and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds.), pp. 235–258 | Chapter
The article addresses the discursive process of othering in online news discussion forums. It is based on a comparative analysis of data from reader comments in British and Czech online newspapers on the topic of recent Roma immigration to the United Kingdom. Applying the discourse historical and… read more
2017 Gil-Salom & Soler-Monreal, eds. (2014). Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres English Text Construction 10:1, pp. 165–170 | Review
2017 Media representations of the “other” Europeans: Common themes and points of divergence Representing the Other in European Media Discourses, Chovanec, Jan and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
This introductory chapter explains the rationale and the objectives of the collection focusing on the choices taken to frame the project in a coherent manner despite the apparent diversity of approaches, materials and scopes. First we highlight the role of the national media in European public… read more
2015 Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions, Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 67–95 | Article
Many communicative events in the media are structurally rather complex,
containing several levels on which utterances are produced, mediated and
received. The present chapter applies and develops Goffman’s notion of embedded
interactions and their participant arrangements by identifying… read more
2015 Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social media Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions, Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
2014 “…but there were no broken legs”: The emerging genre of football match reports in The Times in the 1860s Popular News Discourse: American and British newspapers 1833-1988, pp. 228–254 | Article
The appearance of sports reporting was among the major developments of nineteenth-century journalism. While sports were only very exceptionally covered in the newspapers during the first half of the century, by the end of the Victorian era a diverse array of sports stories provided staple content… read more
2011 Humour in quasi-conversations: Constructing fun in online sports journalism The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 243–264 | Article
The article extends the application of the mechanisms of conversational humour from everyday conversations to written mass media texts. It argues that such an approach is made possible by the dialogic structure of some texts, despite the lack of spontaneity and authenticity that is found in casual… read more
2010 Chapter 4. Legitimation through differentiation: Discursive construction of Jacques Le Worm Chirac as an opponent to military action Perspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 61–82 | Article