Imagery in Football Commentary by Peter Drury Skripsi: English Education, University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. The purpose of this study is to explore the figurative language types of football commentary used by Peter Drury, and to find out the most dominant type of figurative language in football commentary used by Peter Drury. The scope of this research is figurative language or speech in football commentary used by Peter Drury.
The Identification of the Problems
Drury's commentaries used figurative language that serves to convey thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that cannot be adequately expressed in literal language. Based on the above explanation, the researcher is interested in analyzing the Figurative Language of Football Commentary by Peter Drury in the hope that it would be useful for students, teachers and other researchers who are interested in figurative language or figure of speech . And the researcher is interested in analyzing Peter Drury's comments, because in his comments he has shown many expressions that imagine the state or situation in football.
The Scope and Limitation
The Formulation of the Problems
The Objective of the Study
The Significance of the Study
This research aims to provide more comprehensive what is related to figurative language in football commentary. This study can be used to understand the figurative language comments of infootball so that the quality of teachers' learning can be improved. This study will be useful for them to understand the importance of figurative language since Indonesians still use figurative language in writing.
Theoretical Framework 1. Description of Semantics
Figurative Language (Figure of Speech)
- Types of Figurative Language
- Metaphor
- Irony
- Metonymy
- Synecdoche
- Hyperbole
- Litotes
Richards et al defined figure of speech as a word or phrase used for special effect, which does not have its ordinary or literal meaning. On the contrary, Kennedy stated that figures of speech are not devices for saying what is demonstrably false. The first is rhetorical figure of speech consisting of illiteracy, assonance, anastrophe, asyndeton, polycyndethon, chiasmus, ellipsis, euphemism, litotes, paradox, hyperbole and oxymoron.
The appropriate definition is what Soukhanov defined. He stated that metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that usually denotes one thing is used to denote another, making an implicit comparison, as in a sea of problems or in the whole world. a stage. It is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is replaced by another with which it is closely associated, as in Washington's use of '. In addition, Keraf stated that synecdoche is a figure of speech that mentions part of something to suggest the whole.
Moreover, Soukhanov defined synecdoche as a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for policeman), the specific for the general (as murderous for murderer). ), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket). Furthermore, Soukhanov defined hyperbole as a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton. Related to hyperbole, Saeed described it as a traditional label for exaggeration, seen as a rhetorical figure of speech, as did Cruse (2006:80), who added that hyperbole is a figure of speech that involves deliberate exaggeration for rhetorical effect, to increase impact to increase or to attract attention.
According to Soukhanov, litotes is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.
Football Commentary
Abdullah, Z.Al-Saifi stated that the language of football commentary is an area worth researching due to the extensive media coverage of most football sporting events, significant financial investment in the field and the huge audience that is obsessed with all football events. Some forms of written commentary, for example by providing additional information that will allow a fuller understanding of the text, are intended for interpretation only. In spoken commentary, on the other hand, the need for vivid description is often so strong as to reduce interpretation to a minimum.
Because a football match consists on the one hand of a relatively small number of recurring events (shots, passes, referee interventions, etc.), but on the other hand of countless texts (written reports, spoken commentary, etc.) produced every day describing these events, there is developed in many languages a vocabulary rich in synonyms, with fine-grained semantic differences and with subtle stylistic variation, as Lavric et al (2008: 5) have explained.
British Commentator, Peter Drury
Related Research
The results of their research were that the interaction between spontaneous and non-spontaneous speech patterns can be found in sports commentary. The majority of the chosen linguistic elements, including ellipsis, passive voice, inversion, synonyms, metaphor, collocations and repetitions, appear to be more salient. The English commentators do not offer any unique methods or strategies because they offer only a conventional explanation of the picture.
Another study was conducted by Kasma et al (2021) in their study entitled An Analysis of Figurative Language in CNN International News Headlines. A third study related to this topic was conducted by Hutahaean and Manik (2023) in their study entitled Figurative Meaning Found in Sport News Articles. In sports articles, we find seven types of figurative language: metaphor, simile synecdoche, metonymy, hyperbole, personification, irony.
Sports news, specifically football, is reported emotionally to leave the impression of the team and the quality of the competition on the reader. The differences are first, Bakr and Al-Saifi (2022) discussed about football commentary in British English and Egyptian Arabic and the results were mainly in linguistic elements. Second, Kasma et al (2021) discussed in CNN International news headlines and the results were on the types of figurative language and their meanings.
Conceptual Framework
Research Design
Source of Data
Technique of Collecting the Data
After collecting the data from the two videos, the researcher transcribed the script and identified the figurative language used as well as the type of figurative language. Secondly, the researcher classified them based on the theory of Saeed (2016) who said that the figurative language or imagery consists of six types, that is (1) Metaphor (2) Irony, (3) Metonymy, (4) Synecdoche , (5) Hyperbole and (6) Litotes. To analyze easily, the researcher will use a table to make it easy to share the data found.
Technique of Analyzing Data
It refers to the process of selecting, focusing, simplifying, abstracting, and/or transforming data that appear in the entire corpus (body) of recorded field notes, interview transcripts, documents, and other empirical material. In this research, the researcher selected two videos of Drury's football commentary; this is Peter Drury's 2021/2022 top goals commentary and Peter Drury's poetic commentary on Lionel Messi's World Cup win. In general, a representation is an organized, compressed set of information that enables inference and action.
In this research, the researcher tabulated the data and then classified them into types of figurative language as suggested by Saeed, which consists of six types, namely (1) metaphor (2) irony, (3) metonymy, (4) ) Synecdoche, (5) Hyperbole and (6) Litote. From the beginning of data collection, the qualitative analyst interprets what things mean by noticing patterns, explanations, causal flows, and propositions. In this research, the researcher drew some conclusions based on the research problems; are the type of figurative language used by Peter Drury in football commentary and the most dominant type of figurative language used by Drury.
Data Analysis
The types of figurative language of Football Commentary used by Peter Drury
The Figurative language of Football Commentary used by Peter Drury
Peter Drury's Best Goals Commentaries – 2021- 2022 Datum 1 Hyperbole
And pushed in by Roger and City picked it up at the break and that's what champions do. Firmino followed up to get one of his own if things got any worse for Watford Ranieri could be gone by the end of the game. Sweet Arsenal goal, that's a really sharp finish, are overused words for Smith Rowe and Tavres.
Another spectacle from Guardiola's excellent team has gone. There is a comparison between the past and the great. The word top her is used for Fodent Walker. Amidst Arsenal's massive displeasure, a blur of flu relief and Xhaka granite in the eye of the storm.
Poised means to carry or hold in balance; balance, which means it is overused. A brilliantly flawless end-of-half excuse is used to diminish Bernardo Silva's effort. Using an ugly hill to climb back onto their own turf is once again the boss, it is used for the failure of Machester United.
This unhindered joy because they have never seen anything like it with the last kick of the match.
- The Types and the Most Dominant Type of figurative language of football commentary used by Peter Drury
- The Findings
- Conclusions
- Suggestions
- Peter Drury's Best Goals Commentaries – 2021- 2022 [Applause]
- Peter Drury POETIC commentary on Lionel Messi winning the World Cup
From the description above, it can be drawn that Peter Drury used all kinds of imagery for his football commentary. The forms of figurative language he used are metaphor, irony, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole and litotes. The types and most dominant type of imagery in football commentary used by Peter Drury commentary used by Peter Drury.
Based on the data obtained, hyperbole is the most dominant figurative language used by Peter Drury in his football commentary. Peter Drury used all the types of figurative language as suggested by Saeed in which there are six types of them. They can use the findings as a reference to understand the figurative language and understand the content.
In addition, they can also use these findings as a comparison and direction for their future research, especially in the way of analyzing figurative language not only in football commentary, but also in written content. They can use the findings as a reference to understand football commentary and understand figurative language. Teachers need to understand the figurative language used in football commentary in order to improve the quality of teacher learning.
The students should also get more material on figurative language which will be helpful for them to understand the importance of figurative language in commentary to gain more understanding especially in football commentary. In addition, the distinction between the types of figurative language can increase the students' motivation to join the class in presentation or communication. Televised football commentaries: Descriptions, narrations and representations of a non-victory” in: Lavric, Eva, Gerhard Pisek, Andrew Skinner and Wolfgang Stadler (eds.) The Linguistics of Football.
