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The Linguistic Environments of Digital Games: A Discriminant Analysis of Language Use in Game Mechanics
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Dixon, Daniel H. – CALICO Journal, 2022
This study quantitatively measures the variation in language derived from a targeted set of digital game mechanics. Mechanics refer to the design elements of a game that make up the overall gameplay experience, determining player actions and the degree of language interaction. A corpus was compiled by extracting the language files from two popular…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Computer Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction