East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2015 Functional and Stylistic Features of Sports Announcer Talk: A Discourse Analysis of the Register of Major League Soccer Television Broadcasts Marco Balzer-Siber East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Balzer-Siber, Marco, "Functional and Stylistic Features of Sports Announcer Talk: A Discourse Analysis of the Register of Major League Soccer Television Broadcasts" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2515. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2515 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Functional and Stylistic Features of Sports Announcer Talk: A Discourse Analysis of the Register of Major League Soccer Television Broadcasts _____________________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Literature and Language East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in English _____________________ by Marco Balzer-Siber May 2015 _____________________ Dr. Martha Michieka, Chair Dr. Yousif Elhindi Dr. Micah Corum Keywords: Sports Announcer Talk, SAT, Register, Discourse Analysis, Face-Work, Social Interaction ABSTRACT Functional and Stylistic Features of Sports Announcer Talk: A Discourse Analysis of the Register of Major League Soccer Television Broadcasts by Marco Balzer-Siber This study analyzes the register of television sports announcers in Major League Soccer broadcasts, based on six 20-minute transcription samples.