The Language of Gaming

Ensslin, Astrid

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“…Ensslin (2012) provides numerous examples of speech acts from gamer language. Representatives are used when a speaker insists on a proposition being the truth, for example, 'Blizzard has certainly written a fascinating world' (Ensslin,p.…”

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“…Spoken language can be used in various ways to communicate with the listener. Although the characteristics of spoken and written language use while and about gaming has been investigated by Ensslin (2012) and Shelton and Wiley (2007), these studies dealt primarily with digital gaming; other genres of games and gaming, for example, board and card games with rulebooks, cards and extensive face to face communication have yet to be investigated.…”

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Language in Game Rules and Game Play: A Study of Emergence in Pandemic

Masuda

deHaan

2015

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Language and games are both creative activities that can exhibit unexpected behaviors and meanings. Previous studies in the connections between games and language have focused on digital games. The current study investigated the emergence of language in a modern cooperative board game (Pandemic) and used discourse analysis tools to compare and contrast the textual rule book and oral discussions in observed gameplay in terms of speech acts and vocabulary. Unexpected language did emerge in the gameplay, and in general, the longer text and sentences of the rulebook contained more academic vocabulary, and the shorter game play language contained more slang and expressives. Limitations of the study are elucidated and suggestions for future research and uses of analog games for learners of foreign languages are offered.

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Language in Game Rules and Game Play: A Study of Emergence in Pandemic

Masuda

deHaan

2015

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“…Studies on video games and discourse analysis have proliferated in the present decade in the field of linguistics as a result of the noticeable advances in technology during this same period that currently have permitted that video game users can play online with other players worldwide (Ensslin, 2011(Ensslin, , 2015Gee, 2015;Paul, 2012;Perez Latorre, 2015;Stamenković, Jaćević & Wildfeuer, 2017). In the present, most homes have powerful computers and fast internet service; this has also coincided with the rising sales of MOG, resulting in one of the most profitable industries.…”

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Gender Differences Among Mog Players in Their Socialisation Processes

Pitarch

2018

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The increasing popularity of multiplayer online video games has given rise to the creation of linguistic communities with specific forms of communication and rules. Among the several features of those digital communities, some differences among men's and women's communication behaviours seem to be real when they play video games. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyse gender differences in the socialisation process among MOG Players (Multiplayer Online Game). To this aim, this research introduces an experiment with 201 MOG players (males: 147; females: 54) who responded to a survey concerning the use of 20 social communicative acts (based on Guntermann and June, 1982, p. 26) in three different contexts: the participant knew in advance the other player from a) the real world, b) the virtual world, or c) they had never met before. The results obtained from this analysis have shown some differences between both male and female MOG participants in their socialisation process when interacting with other players by determining the frequency and the per cent variation on the use of the selected communicative acts. In conclusion, it seems that there are some similarities and differences between men and women when interacting with MOG players that may interfere in the way they play videogames and behave towards other players.

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“…This in itself is a very troubling claim. It ignores, for example, the work of Astrid Ensslin (2011Ensslin ( , 2014Bell et al, 2014;Ensslin and Muse, 2011), Vit Šisler (2006, Clara Fernandez-Vara's (2014) book, and my own work on this topic (Carrillo Masso, 2009Masso, , 2011Masso, , 2015Carrillo Masso and Abrams, 2014), among others. This, sadly, keeps the tone of an otherwise refreshing book mostly self-referential.…”

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Book review: James Paul Gee, Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds and Video Games

Masso

2016

Discourse & Communication

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s slim volume opens with an introductory chapter that attempts to help the reader situate the work within the field of discourse analysis and video games studies. Gee's audience in this volume is, no doubt, undergraduate students and non-academics, given the language and references he uses. This makes the book very readable, but it does leave many new advances in the field of video games and discourse analysis out of the discussion. This was perhaps done deliberately, to keep the discussion and language simple, but as the book progresses it becomes more and more problematic.For example, Gee claims that his book is about 'something that has, as far as [he knows], never been written about before' (p. i). This in itself is a very troubling claim. It ignores, for example, the work of

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The Language of Gaming

Cited by 76 publications

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Language in Game Rules and Game Play: A Study of Emergence in Pandemic

Language in Game Rules and Game Play: A Study of Emergence in Pandemic

Gender Differences Among Mog Players in Their Socialisation Processes

Book review: James Paul Gee, Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds and Video Games

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