Research and Polling Center of I.R.I.B Communication Research 2538-2977 19 69 2012 03 01 Examining Lexical Structures of Football Couches’ Interviews Following Matches Examining Lexical Structures of Football Couches’ Interviews Following Matches 101 118 23358 10.22082/cr.2012.23358 FA Kamran Teimuri general languages of Azad university Shahram Modarres Khiyabani assistant prof. in general languages of Azad university, Karaj Journal Article 2011 10 22 <em>The nature of sports’ matches usually arouses excitement on part of coaches following games. Such excitement resulting from joy or disappointment of the individuals has, most probably, a direct impact on their speech, particularly, the lexicon employed in their interviews. The present article aims to examine the lexical structure of interviews given by football coaches in Iranian premier league following the matches (ninth round, season 88-89). First a corpus of interviews from 18 couches in Iranian premier league including one after winning and another after losing were collected. Then, the frequency of lexical structures of their interviews was counted using statistic methodologies. Research findings indicate that the couches mostly use emotionally positive terminology after winning, while they adopt an emotionally negative terminology after losing. Furthermore, the level of their projection after losing is much more than the time they win.</em> <em>The nature of sports’ matches usually arouses excitement on part of coaches following games. Such excitement resulting from joy or disappointment of the individuals has, most probably, a direct impact on their speech, particularly, the lexicon employed in their interviews. The present article aims to examine the lexical structure of interviews given by football coaches in Iranian premier league following the matches (ninth round, season 88-89). First a corpus of interviews from 18 couches in Iranian premier league including one after winning and another after losing were collected. Then, the frequency of lexical structures of their interviews was counted using statistic methodologies. Research findings indicate that the couches mostly use emotionally positive terminology after winning, while they adopt an emotionally negative terminology after losing. Furthermore, the level of their projection after losing is much more than the time they win.</em> http://cr.iribresearch.ir/article_23358_e50292f6504ef1d578f12d76de3ef250.pdf