COMPARATIVE TROPES AS A MEANS OF CREATING IMAGERY AND EXPRESSIVENESS IN SPORTS DISCOURSE

UDC 81-114

Stefanovskaya Ekaterina Igorevna – Senior Lecturer, the Department of Translation Theory and Practice of Belarusian State University (5 Akademika Kurchatova str., 220045, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: Stsefk@bsu.by

DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.52065/2520-6729-2025-291-18.

Key words: comparative tropes, metaphor, simile, sports discourse, sports communication, sports.

For citation: Stefanovskaya E. I. Comparative tropes as a means of creating imagery and expressiveness in sports discourse. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 4, Print- and Mediatechnologies, 2025, no. 1 (291), pp. 133–138 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2520-6729-2025-291-18.

Abstract

One of the most frequently used sources of adding special expression, imagery and expressiveness to a particular type of discourse is the use of various types of comparative tropes. Within the framework of this study, a comprehensive analysis is conducted, its subject being the constructions with comparative semantics used in Russian-language sports-related materials: reports, broadcasts, news reports and notes, interviews, blogs devoted to such sports as football, ice hockey, biathlon, figure skating, boxing, tennis and others. Traditionally, comparative tropes are understood as metaphors and comparisons; however, this paper proposes to divide sports comparative tropes into two large groups – core and peripheral – within which a further sub-classification process can be carried out. The classification of sports comparative tropes that permeate the speech of a sports rhetor can be used to conduct similar studies in other languages, to analyze the key communicative strategies of a sports journalist's linguistic personality from the point of view of identifying linguacultural peculiarities, as well as to further study various aspects of the functioning of sports mass-media discourse, which remains today as one of the least studied discursive patterns.

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