[Commlist] New book: Approaches to Videogame Discourse

I'm delighted to announce the publication of our new book,*/Approaches 
to Videogame Discourse: Lexis, Interaction, Textuality 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/approaches-to-videogame-discourse-9781501338465/>/* 
(Bloomsbury, 2019, ed. Astrid Ensslin and Isabel Balteiro):

The first significant collection of research in videogame linguistics, 
/Approaches to Videogame Discourse/ features an international array of 
scholars in linguistics, media and communication studies exploring 
lexis, interaction and textuality in digital games.

In the first section, “Lexicology, Localisation and Variation,” chapters 
cover productive processes surrounding gamer slang (ludolects), 
creativity and borrowing across languages, as well as industry-, genre-, 
game- and player-specific issues relating to localization, legal jargon 
and slang. “Player Interactions” moves on to examine communicative 
patterns between videogame players, focusing in particular on 
(un)collaborative language, functions and negotiations of impoliteness 
and issues of power in player discourse. In the final section, “Beyond 
the 'Text',” scholars grapple with issues of multimodality, 
paratextuality and transmediality in videogames in order to develop and 
enrich multimodal theory, drawing on key concepts from ludonarratology, 
language ideology, immersion and transmedia studies.

With implications for meaningful game design and communication theory, 
/Approaches to Videogame Discourse/ examines in detail how video games 
function as means and objects of communication; how they give rise to 
new vocabularies, textual genres and discourse practices; and how they 
serve as rich vehicles of ideological signification and social engagement.

*Endorsements:*

“Finally! A concerted take on the richly, intricately discursive world 
of gaming. Edited collections have proved to be defining moments in 
digital discourse studies; this one will be no exception.” – /Crispin 
Thurlow, Professor of Language and Communication, University of Bern, 
Switzerland/

“/Approaches to Video-Game Discourse/ is a field-shaping collection of 
essays which show how interesting and varied the study of online gaming 
can be. The book is impressive in its scope, including research about 
the micro-level features such as word formation and moving through to 
broader concerns such as the narrativity of particular games. The book 
should be commended for reaching beyond the study of individual games 
and paying attention to various paratexts such as video walkthroughs, 
manuals and the legal language relating to games. The scholars who have 
contributed to this collection embrace the full range of approaches that 
are found in discourse studies, using corpus driven analyses, 
ethnography, pragmatics, and multimodality to explore the texts and 
interactions of game-playing from empirically informed perspectives. The 
book will be of interest to linguists and new media scholars alike as a 
timely resource which helps us all understand how gaming is meaningful 
in many different ways.” – /Dr. Ruth Page, Senior Lecturer in Applied 
Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK/

“Fueled by a new generation of scholars, this volume sketches out 
videogame discourse studies as a new field of research that extends from 
corpus-assisted lexical analysis to the multimodal study of paratexts 
that surround games. The authors draw on concepts and questions from 
applied, media and sociolinguistics, such as language ideologies, 
(im)politeness, plain language, and localization. This volume offers an 
accessible introduction to a field of practice that is massively popular 
on a global scale, yet quite understudied from a language and discourse 
perspective.” – /Jannis Androutsopoulos, Professor of German and Media 
Linguistics, Universität Hamburg, Germany/

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