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020			_a9781501375446
082			_a794.8 _bENS
100			_aEnsslin, Astrid _eed.
245			_aApproaches to videogame discourse : lexis, interaction, textuality
260			_bBloomsbury Academic, _c2019 _aNew York :
300			_aix, 319 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b29.99 _cGBP _d104.20
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aVideo games
650			_aMedia Studies
650			_aBio Shock
650			_aAffective discourse
650			_aConversational discourse
650			_a Dysphemism
650			_aEULA
650			_aFrame analysis
650			_aHypermediacy
650			_aIdentity
650			_aLexico-grammatical pattern
650			_aMultilayer
650			_aNeologism
650			_aProcedural rhetoric
650			_aRacism
650			_aSexism
650			_aTranslation pattern
650			_aWord formation
700			_aBalteiro, Isabel _eed.
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