Post-match interviews

Post-match interviews

Genre

•       Post-match interviews very much depend on the outcome of the match in hand; if the match goes badly for a team then the reaction from people involved will be very different from if a match goes well.

•       We have watched a post-match interview and this was what we managed to find about the genre

•       The manager is relaxed and shows this through the language he uses and through his body language. He smiles throughout the interview and we see many more emotional verbs and adjectives. I believe this is because he is more willing to show how he feels than an actual player. The first interview however talks much more about the way others are acting or feeling. In my opinion this is to disguise his own feelings about how he thinks his team played. The manager is obviously very frustrated and angry with the result of the game. This sets the tone for a more emotional, short tempered interview.

Contextual factors

•       Genre                   – Post-match interview

•       Register               – Colloquial (may be formal/informal depending on  the speaker)

•       Audience            – Football fans / anyone in the room

•       Mode                    – Multi-modal (video/pictures/sounds) and spoken

•       Purpose               – Transactional / to inform / to entertain (answering  questions)

•       Subject – Football / sport

•       Where?
At home, in the workplace, live on television, online, Youtube, may have been written up in a newspaper / magazine

Modal features

WRITTEN

•       - Durable (video lasts)

•       - Some points may have been planned in advance

•       - May be Formal (manager / figure in a high position within the club)

SPOKEN

•       - Dialogue (2+ people)

•       - Spontaneous

•       - Grammatically simple

•       - May be Informal (player / manager)

Language levels

Language levels depend on the outcome of the game; this is an analysis of a regular post-match interview

•       Lexis
The words used in this interview are more directed towards the actions of others. He describes the actions of a player as ‘disgusting’. The manager in the second interview uses more personal adjectives and describes his team as very good as appose to describing the other team in cynical way.

•       Grammar
The grammar is affected by the person saying it. In football or any other sport people come to play the sport from all walks of life. This means that often in post-match interviews grammatically incorrect sentences are used such as ‘it ain’t good’

•       Punctuation
Because post-match interviews are only spoken we have to assume that the punctuation used is correct, If it was written we’d be able to analyse punctuation in more detail

Discourse features

•       Video

•       Audio

•       Interview is usually linked onto a transcript (however heavy improvising can be made due to player’s/manager’s responses.)

•       Manager’s/player’s response is very improvised and only usually mentally planned at the most.