The Language of Gaming
Published on 29. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-230-23859-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Language of Gaming examines the complex language of videogames and gaming from a discourse analytical perspective.Astrid Ensslin studiesthe discourses inscribed in videogames by their producers, as well as gamer and media meta-discourses, and focal areas include gamer slang, illocution, multimodality and narrative structures.
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Edition
2011
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
341 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-23859-6 (9780230238596)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-35708-2
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Astrid Ensslin
The Language of Gaming
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11/2011
Red Globe Press
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ASTRID ENSSLIN Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Bangor University, UK. She is the Principal Editor of Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. Her publications include Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual (2011), Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (2007) and Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies (2007).
Content
List of Illustrations.- List of Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction.- Approaches to Discourse Analysis.- Games and Language.- Videogame Genres, Macrostructures and Textuality.- Words and Meanings.- The Linguistic Pragmatics of Gameplay.- Metaludic Discourses.- Gaming and Multimodality.- The Narrative Language of Videogames.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.