Approaches to videogame discourse lexis, interaction, textuality / edited by Astrid Ensslin and Isabel Balteiro.

Other author Ensslin, Astrid.
Other author Balteiro, Isabel, 1974-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Descriptionix, 319 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Locating videogames in medium-specific, multilingual discourse analyses / Astrid Ensslin and Isabel Balteiro -- Videogames : a lexical approach / Carola Álvarez-Bolado and Inmaculada Álvarez de Mon -- Lexical and morphological devices in gamer language in fora / Isabel Balteiro -- Phraseology and lexico-grammatical patterns in two emergent paragame genres : videogame tutorials and walkthroughs / Christopher Gledhill -- Playing with the language of the future : the localization of science fiction terms in videogames / Alice Ray -- End-user agreements in videogames : plain English at work in an ideal setting / Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos -- Bad language and bro-up cooperation in co-sit taming / Astrid Ensslin and John Finnegan -- "Shut the fuck up re! Plant the bomb fast!" : reconstructing language and identity in first person shooter games / Elisavet Kiourti -- "I cut it and I..well now what?" : (un)collaborative language in timed puzzle games / Luke A. Rudge -- "Watch the potty mouth" : negotiating impoliteness in online gaming / Sage L. Graham and Scott Dutt -- On the procedural mode / Jason Hawreliak -- The player experience of Bioshock : a theory of ludonarrative relationships / Weimin Toh -- Language ideologies in videogame discourse : forms of sociophonetic othering in accented character speech / Tejasvi Goorimoorthee, Adrianna Csipo, Shelby Carleton and Astrid Ensslin -- Playing it by the book : instructing and constructing the player in the videogame manual paratext / Michael Hancock -- Afterword / James Paul Gee.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2019007183
ISBN9781501338458 (hardback : alk. paper)
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