RT Book, Section T1 Linguistic change in the 20th century. Colloquialization processes through football broadcastings in Peninsular Spanish A1 Salameh Jiménez, Shima A2 Pons Bordería, Salvador A2 Salameh Jiménez, Shima AB This paper analyses the colloquialization of football-match broadcastings in Peninsular Spanish throughout the 20th century, in line with other recent works dealing with the colloquialization of mass-media. To do so, it accounts for (a) linguistic features, (b) register variation, and (c) external factors related to colloquialization. The analysis is based on a self-compiled database of audio-visual recordings aired between 1968 and the 2000s in Tv and radio. According to results, colloquialization in Peninsular Spanish football broadcasts was developed during three main periods: 1960s–1980s, 1980s–1990s, and 1990s up to now. Specifically, colloquialization can be measured by speech speed, vocabulary and the use of address terms, among other features. These features, in turn, are associated with register variation properties, such as changes in the proximity shared by speakers or the presence of day-to-day topics in broadcastings. Last, some external factors, such as the influence of historical events or the role of announcers also seem to affect the results analysed. PB John Benjamins Publishing Company YR 2024 FD 2024-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116064 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116064 LA eng NO Salameh Jiménez, Shima (2024). Linguistic change in the 20th century. Colloquialization processes through football broadcastings in Peninsular Spanish, 2024. En Pons Bordería, S. y Salameh Jiménez, S. (eds.): Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages. Pragmatics & Beyond Series, 340. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 17-62. NO Generalitat Valenciana NO MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ NO FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional) DS Docta Complutense RD 17 abr 2025