Language, Gender and Videogames

Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is used to construct representations of gender in fantasy videogames.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-02
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor245
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030744007

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What do we know? A background to Language, Gender, Videogames, and Corpora.- Chapter 3: The Problems With Videogame Data: Methodological Considerations in the Creation of a Corpus of Videogames and Problems with Different Methods of Corpus Compilation.- Chapter 4: Looking at Representations of Gender Across Videogames: A Corpus of General Fantasy Games.- Chapter 5: Looking at Gender in a Specific Series of Videogames: A Corpus of The Witcher Series.- Chapter 6: Looking at Diachronic Differences in the Representation of Gender: the (Re) Duplication of Gendered Discourses in World of Warcraft Quests.- Chapter 7: Conclusions and Lines for Future Research.