Approaches to Videogame Discourse: Lexis, Interaction, Textuality

Approaches to Videogame Discourse: Lexis, Interaction, Textuality

by Astrid Ensslin (Editor), IsabelBalteiro (Editor)

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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Published: 02 May 2019

ISBN 10: 1501338455
ISBN 13: 9781501338458
Book Overview: Approaches to Video Game Discourse is the first significant collection on videogame discourse analysis, focusing in particular on lexicological, sociolinguistic, interactional, (para)textual and multimodal matters.

Media Reviews
Finally! A concerted take on the richly, intricately discursive world of gaming. Edited collections have proved to be defining moments in digital discourse studies; this one will be no exception. * Crispin Thurlow, Professor of Language and Communication, University of Bern, Switzerland *
Author Bio
Astrid Ensslin is Professor in Digital Humanities and Game Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Isabel Balteiro is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Alicante, Spain.