Havryliuk O. Live text commentary as a new form of a sportscast (based on English).

The thesis introduces a new form of a sportscast - a live text commentary. The research is devoted to the lexical, grammatical, communicative and pragmatic analysis of the live text commentaries of sports competitions, which (the commentary) arises as a result of the penetration of the Internet communication into all spheres of life. In the paper, we posit that the live text commentary is a new form of a sportscast and a separate genre of Internet discourse. Genre and communicative-pragmatic features of the live text commentary, such as: synhcronicity, anonymous mass recipient, remoteness, communication instrumentality, message immediacy, prescriptive temporal and structural organization, perlocution, institutionality, electronic signal as a channel of communication, participant status equality, hierarchy of сommentary details, hypertextuality, oral-written speech type, interaction of verbal and nonverbal means, graphic expression of speech prosody and multimodal digital text allowed to set it up as a sportscast form and an Internet discourse genre. Live text commentary acts as an essential communicative element of sports discourse, which cannot be described in terms of disconnectedness in discursive space and is characterized by an affinity with the mass media discourse, which is the main operation channel. The live text commentary communication pecularities are determined by the oral-written type of broadcast, expressed in specific syntactic structures (emphatic, elliptical expressions, nominative sentences) and special use of graphemics and paragraphemics. It is proved that live commentary synhcronicity and situationality stipulate the oral-written speech of a commentator that defines affective evaluation and syntactic features of a live commentary sportscast.