Approaches to Videogame Discourse: Lexis, Interaction, Textuality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150137544X ISBN 13: 9781501375446

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

The first significant collection of research in videogame linguistics, Approaches to Videogame Discourse features an international array of scholars in linguistics and communication studies exploring lexis, interaction and textuality in digital games.

In the first section, “Lexicology, Localisation and Variation,” chapters cover productive processes surrounding gamer slang (ludolects), creativity and borrowing across languages, as well as industry-, genre-, game- and player-specific issues relating to localization, legal jargon and slang. “Player Interactions” moves on to examine communicative patterns between videogame players, focusing in particular on (un)collaborative language, functions and negotiations of impoliteness and issues of power in player discourse. In the final section, “Beyond the 'Text',” scholars grapple with issues of multimodality, paratextuality and transmediality in videogames in order to develop and enrich multimodal theory, drawing on key concepts from ludonarratology, language ideology, immersion and transmedia studies.

With implications for meaningful game design and communication theory, Approaches to Videogame Discourse examines in detail how video games function as means and objects of communication; how they give rise to new vocabularies, textual genres and discourse practices; and how they serve as rich vehicles of ideological signification and social engagement.

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About the Authors

Astrid Ensslin is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her past publications include Literary Gaming (2014), Analyzing Digital Fiction (2014), The Language of Gaming (2011), Creating Second Lives (2011), Canonizing Hypertext (2007), and Language in the Media (2007). She is Principal Editor of Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds.

Isabel Balteiro is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain. She is Principal Editor of Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150137544X
• ISBN 13: 9781501375446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Ensslin Astrid, Balteiro Isabel