The language of the contemporary Croatian football column

Unutar vidokruga raslojene jezične stvarnosti (usp. Badurina i Kovačević 2001.) i funkcionalne raslojenosti hrvatskoga standardnoga jezika (usp. npr. Silić 2006.) uvriježeno se izdvaja i jezik novinarstva ili žurnalistike, u svim svojim inačicama. Rad će se posvetiti suvremenomu pisanomu hrvatskomu jeziku sportskoga novinarstva, konkretno jeziku i diskursu hrvatskih nogometnih kolumni novinskih i mrežnih u 21. stoljeću. U zadnjih dvadeset godina može se prepoznati nekoliko glavnih rukavaca hrvatske nogometne kolumnistike. Jedan čine kolumnisti kojima su nogometne teme obično tek polazište za šire sociološko-fenomenološke uvide s izraženim subjektivnim stavom (npr. Tomislav Židak, Boris Dežulović). Drugi rukavac čine kolumne sportskih novinara, koje se ugrubo mogu podijeliti na one tradicionalnije (npr. Robert Matteoni, Predrag Jurišić, Dražen Krušelj) i one mlađega naraštaja, koji su unatrag 10–15 godina uveli u nogometnu žurnalistiku sasvim nov diskurs, gotovo znanstvenih odlika (terminologija, pristup nogometnoj taktici i psiho-fizičkim odlikama pojedinih nogometaša, citiranje kineziološke literature) i drugačijega žargona (npr. Mihovil Topić, Vice Karin, Bernard Jurišić). U radu će se pokušati potvrditi pretpostavka o postojanju tih rukavaca te će se posebna pozornost posvetiti diskursu i žargonu kolumnista treće skupine, koji su počeli objavljivati oko 2010. Odlike tog diskursa omjerit će se o one za koje se obično smatra da su svojstvene nogometnoj kolumni i reportaži (usp. npr. Udier 2005., Silić 2006.). Postojeće predodžbe o karakterističnu pisanu jeziku o nogometu donekle su revidirane.Within the perspective of the stratified linguistic reality (cf. Badurina and Kovačević 2001) and the functional stratification of the Croatian standard language (cf. e.g. Silić 2006), the language of journalism, in all its varieties, is traditionally distinguished. This paper will focus on the contemporary written Croatian language of sports journalism, specifically the language and discourse of Croatian football columns in newspapers and online in the 21st century. In the last twenty years, several main armlets of Croatian football columnism can be recognized. One consists of columnists for whom football topics are usually only a starting point for broader sociological-phenomenological insights with a pronounced subjective attitude (e.g. Tomislav Židak, Boris Dežulović). The second armlet consists of the sports journalists’ columns, which can roughly be divided into the more traditional ones (e.g. Robert Matteoni, Predrag Jurišić, Dražen Krušelj) and those of the younger generation, who some 10-15 years ago introduced a completely new discourse, almost scientific in nature, into football journalism (terminology, approach to soccer tactics and psycho-physical characteristics of individual soccer players, citing kinesiology literature) and different jargon (e.g. Mihovil Topić, Vice Karin, Bernard Jurišić). The paper will try to confirm the assumption about the existence of these armlets, and special attention will be given to the third group’s columnists’ discourse and jargon, who started publishing around 2010. That discourse’s features will be compared to those that are usually considered to be characteristic of a football column and reports (cf. e.g. Udier 2005, Silić 2006). Existing notions about the characteristic written language about football have been somewhat revised