@article{ART003366162},
author={Park, Won-ho},
title={A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -},
journal={Korean Language & Literature},
issn={1229-1730},
year={2026},
number={133},
pages={1-29}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Won-ho
TI - A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -
JO - Korean Language & Literature
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 133
PB - Korean Language & Literature
SP - 1
EP - 29
SN - 1229-1730
AB - the 2025 Korean Series from the perspective of public language. As baseball has become one of the most widely consumed sports in Korea, Korean Series broadcasts on terrestrial television constitute a public communicative event that reaches not only dedicated baseball fans but also general viewers. The study transcribed the broadcast using Buzz with a Whisper large-v3-based model, integrated five SRT files (part_000 to part_004), and corrected automatic transcription errors related to baseball terminology. The analysis used the baseball section of the National Institute of Korean Language’s purified sports terminology list as the primary reference, while also examining general foreign expressions in broadcast commentary according to the criteria of clarity and accessibility.
The analysis shows that KBS used several Korean or purified expressions such as bolnet (“base on balls”), mom-e matneun gong (“hit by pitch”), and pyeonggyun jachaekjeom (“earned run average”), while also relying on foreign-based specialized terms such as forkball, four-seam fastball, bullpen, save, hold, and contact play. Terms such as strike, out, foul, and home run were treated not as problematic foreign words but as conventionalized core rule terms in baseball discourse. In addition, general foreign expressions such as best, impact, condition, timing, and highlight appeared in the commentary. The findings suggest that the public-language quality of baseball broadcasting should not be evaluated solely by whether foreign terms are used. Rather, it should be discussed in terms of the balance among normativity, field conventionality, and accessibility for general viewers. This study provides a preliminary framework for future comparative research on baseball broadcast discourse across Korean terrestrial broadcasters.
KW - public language;baseball broadcasting;public broadcaster;purified terminology;sports commentary;KBS;Korean Series
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Park, Won-ho. (2026). A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -. Korean Language & Literature, 133, 1-29.
Park, Won-ho. 2026, "A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -", Korean Language & Literature, no.133, pp.1-29.
Park, Won-ho "A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -" Korean Language & Literature 133 pp.1-29 (2026) : 1.
Park, Won-ho. A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -. 2026; 133 : 1-29.
Park, Won-ho. "A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -" Korean Language & Literature no.133(2026) : 1-29.
Park, Won-ho. A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -. Korean Language & Literature, 133, 1-29.
Park, Won-ho. A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -. Korean Language & Literature. 2026; 133 1-29.
Park, Won-ho. A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -. 2026; 133 : 1-29.
Park, Won-ho. "A Preliminary Study on Baseball Broadcast Terminology Used by a Public Broadcaster from the Perspective of Public Language - Focusing on KBS Broadcast Discourse in Game 1 of the 2025 Korean Series -" Korean Language & Literature no.133(2026) : 1-29.
