The language of gaming
By: Astrid Ensslin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780230238596
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Visual literacy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Social aspects; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Video games; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / School Media
Description: "The Language of Gaming examines the complex language of videogames and gaming from a discourse analytical perspective. Astrid Ensslin studies the 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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: List of Tables and Figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Approaches to Discourse Analysis; title: Games and Language; title: Videogame Genres, Macrostructures and Textuality; title: Words and Meanings; title: The Linguistic Pragmatics of Gameplay; title: Metaludic Discourses; title: Gaming and Multimodality; title: The Narrative Language of Videogames; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography; title: Index.