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Locating videogames in medium-specific, multilingual discourse analyses / Astrid Ensslin and Isabel Balteiro

Videogames : a lexical approach / Carola Álvarez-Bolado and Inmaculada Álvarez de Mon

Lexical and morphological devices in gamer language in fora / Isabel Balteiro

Phraseology and lexico-grammatical patterns in two emergent paragame genres : videogame tutorials and walkthroughs / Christopher Gledhill

Playing with the language of the future : the localization of science fiction terms in videogames / Alice Ray

End-user agreements in videogames : plain English at work in an ideal setting / Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos

Bad language and bro-up cooperation in co-sit taming / Astrid Ensslin and John Finnegan

"Shut the fuck up re! Plant the bomb fast!" : reconstructing language and identity in first person shooter games / Elisavet Kiourti

"I cut it and I..well now what?" : (un)collaborative language in timed puzzle games / Luke A. Rudge

"Watch the potty mouth" : negotiating impoliteness in online gaming / Sage L. Graham and Scott Dutt

On the procedural mode / Jason Hawreliak

The player experience of Bioshock : a theory of ludonarrative relationships / Weimin Toh

Language ideologies in videogame discourse : forms of sociophonetic othering in accented character speech / Tejasvi Goorimoorthee, Adrianna Csipo, Shelby Carleton and Astrid Ensslin

Playing it by the book : instructing and constructing the player in the videogame manual paratext / Michael Hancock

Afterword / James Paul Gee.

Video games > Social aspects.

Video games > Design.

Video games > Terminology.

Video games > Design.

Video games > Social aspects.