Language, gender and video games : using corpora to analyse the representation of gender in fantasy video games / Frazer Heritage.
2021
GV1469.34.S52 H47 2021
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Title
Language, gender and video games : using corpora to analyse the representation of gender in fantasy video games / Frazer Heritage.
Author
Heritage, Frazer, author.
ISBN
9783030743987 (electronic bk.)
3030743985 (electronic bk.)
9783030743970
3030743977
3030743985 (electronic bk.)
9783030743970
3030743977
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
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10.1007/978-3-030-74398-7 doi
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GV1469.34.S52 H47 2021
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793.930285
Summary
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. Frazer Heritage is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Birmingham City University, UK. He actively researches the representation of gender and sexuality in different forms of media, with a focus on using corpus methods to do such analysis.
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Table of Contents
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. .
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. .