Términos y estructuras para designar los referentes del evento futbolístico en el diario L’Équipe

Abstract

This article identifies the syntactic and lexical structures most commonly used by sports journalists to designate the referents of football events in a corpus of ten articles from the French sports newspaper L’Equipe. This allows us to contribute to the linguistic characterization of sports discourse in French, especially football newspaper articles. In order to analyze the corpus, we will first identify the terms and syntactic structures used in articles from L’Equipe that refer to the most prototypical elements of the football event, i.e., teams, players, coaches, moves, and other elements. Secondly, we will determine how regularly journalists mention each one of these referents in terms of types and tokens. Finally, we will examine the syntactic configuration of the structures.