Linguistic and stylistic analysis of sports commentators' speech
The article presents the study on speech of sports commentator during swimming championship. The area of commenting in this sport is understudied. The review gives much attention to the hesitation pauses and tropes and features of the flowing free speech. In the course of research, the author identified the features of commenting during swimming competitions and gave a contrastive-comparative analysis of commentators' speech, both an expert and a professional sportsman.