The language of gaming

By Astrid Ensslin

Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / School Media, Discourse analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Visual literacy, Computer games, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Video games, Social aspects

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"--