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The language of gaming / Astrid Ensslin.
- Title
- The language of gaming / Astrid Ensslin.
- Author
- Ensslin, Astrid
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV1469.3 .E66 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 208 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Video games
- Video games > Social aspects
- Visual literacy
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / School Media
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
- Video Games
- Genre/Form
- Video games.
- Video games
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780230238596 (pbk.)
- 0230238599 (pbk.)
- 9780230238589
- 0230238580
- LCCN
- ^^2011049033
- OCLC
- 747533316
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library