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genre and register-specific features of German live text commentaries from 2003 until 2020. Using quantitative methods, it focuses
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time. It is shown that various markers, which signal a colloquial register and emulate orality in the written mode, decrease,
leading to a more impersonal way of reporting. Moreover, markers of individual perspective decrease in favor of a neutralistic
stance. Thus, the evolution of live text commentaries can be described as a process of standardization.
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