Analysing English as a Lingua Franca in Video Games : Linguistic Features, Experiential and Functional Dimensions of Online and Scripted Interactions Paperback / softback
by Pietro Luigi Iaia
Part of the Linguistic Insights series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book examines the English Lingua Franca (ELF) uses in a corpus of online and scripted video-game interactions.
While research generally explores the playful and technological aspects of computer-mediated communication, this study focuses on the strategies of cooperation, language simplification and authentication, lexical creativity and meaning negotiation that are generally activated within the «community of practice of gamers» to facilitate cross-cultural conversations.
The scripted exchanges, instead, are examined by means of the ALFA Model (Analysis of Lingua Franca in Audiovisual texts), which is devised to enquire into the extent to which the non-native participants’ language variations are part of the multimodal actualisation of the cognitive construct of «non-native speakers», to which authors resort in order to prompt specific reactions on the part of the receivers.
Finally, since the participants’ turns in both online and scripted interactions are visually represented as written messages on screen, this research also contributes to the development of the description of written ELF variations, so far not thoroughly explored in the literature.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:15/09/2016
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- ISBN:9783034321389
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:15/09/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9783034321389
