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

Heritage, Frazer (2021) Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030743970

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Dates:	Date Event 1 August 2021 Published
Subjects:	CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific) CAH19 - language and area studies > CAH19-01 - English studies > CAH19-01-07 - linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > College of Psychology
Depositing User:	Frazer Heritage
Date Deposited:	10 Aug 2021 10:58
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 13:03
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12033

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