Football Report – At the Source of a Genre

Sprawozdanie piłkarskie – u źródeł gatunku

Rafał Siekiera (1)

1 Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Nauk Geograficznych

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.

Mots clés: sports report; journalistic genres; Przegląd Sportowy; Polish interwar press

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Rafał Siekiera. Sprawozdanie piłkarskie – u źródeł gatunku. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2015, 28 (2), pp.189-203. ⟨hal-01186475⟩