A Linguistic Analysis of Tennis Players’ Speeches
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https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i132.805Keywords:
speeches, encoding and decoding, misunderstanding, native and non-native speakers, phonological analysisAbstract
This study is under the title "A Linguistic Analysis of Tennis Players’ Speeches", which tackles the English speeches that are delivered by tennis players (native and non-native speakers) in the championship’s final game. The problem lies in encoding and decoding the native and non-native tennis players’ speeches being unplanned, and they are delivered in a formal setting which is a rare case. In other words, in perceiving these speeches, there are many speech sounds that distract the native English listeners’ ears like pronouncing the word Zurich as /θurik/; whereas the BBC pronunciation is [ˈzjʊərɪʔk]. The study aims at detecting phonologically the differences between the English accent of the tennis players (native and non-native speakers) and BBC as well as showing how this causes a problem in the process of encoding and decoding.
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