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Analyzing Player Interviews in Sports: Ling 194 Assignment 3, Assignments of Linguistics

An assignment for ling 194 – language and sports course, where students are required to transcribe and analyze two player interviews from nba, nhl, or ncaa basketball or volleyball games. The analysis includes identifying the context-specific content versus routine structures, noting discourse markers, and describing any noteworthy peripheral vocabulary or nicknames used.

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Download Analyzing Player Interviews in Sports: Ling 194 Assignment 3 and more Assignments Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! Ling 194 – Language and Sports  Assignment 3  Due February 27    Using NBA, NHL, and or NCAA basketball or volleyball, obtain footage of at least two  player interviews, from a television or radio broadcast of a game.  These interviews are  likely to be found during intermissions or after games, as the players leave the bench to  head to the locker room; they may also take place in the locker room following the  game.    Transcribe the interview as fully as you can.  Most such interviews are relatively brief,  with perhaps four questions or so.    1.  Describe as much as you can the extent to which the content of the players talk  seems to be specific to the context of the game just played, and how much of it  could instead be construed as structures which are possibly routine of this  interview setting.    2.  Note and attempt to quantify discourse marking structures such as “you know”,  “like”, “obviously”, “well”, or anything else that appears in the players’ speech  that qualifies.  Where in each utterance do these structures fit?    3.  Do the players also use any peripheral vocabulary, nicknames, or anything else  noteworthy?  Please describe in detail.