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Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Vi

Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Vi

by Heritage, Frazer
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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. The author demonstrates a wide array of techniques which can be used to both build corpora of videogames and to analyse them, revealing broad patterns of representation within the genre, while also zooming in to focus on diachronic changes in the representation of gender within a best-selling videogame series and a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). The book examines gender as a social variable, making use of corpus linguistic methods to demonstrate how the language used to depict gender is complex but often repeated. This book combines fields including language and gender studies, new media studies, ludolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, and it will be of interest to scholars in these and related disciplines.

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Pub dateAug 2, 2022
ISBN-103030744000
ISBN-139783030744007
LanguageEnglish
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