27.2541, FYI: Call for Papers: Edited Volume: Video Games and Language Studies

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Subject: 27.2541, FYI: Call for Papers: Edited Volume: Video Games and Language Studies

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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:25:25
From: Astrid Ensslin [ensslin at ualberta.ca]
Subject: Call for Papers: Edited Volume: Video Games and Language Studies

We're inviting contributions to a volume titled Video Games and Language
Studies: Lexis, Discourse, Pedagogy, edited by Astrid Ensslin and Isabel
Balteiro, to be published by John Benjamins (pending full proposal review).

Abstract:
Video games, gamification and game culture have become a paradigm of our
everyday lives. Games are studied and employed across disciplines and
occupational sectors around the world. They are used in educational and
professional contexts, as both tools and objects of learning, communication
and the promotion of values. It is perhaps surprising in this context that
little comprehensive work exists to date that examines video games as objects
and tools of language studies. With the exception of broader educational and
introductory work done by James Paul Gee (2007) and Astrid Ensslin (2012) for
example, there hasn't been any systematic attempt at bringing together areas
within applied linguistics that examine in detail how video games give rise to
new vocabularies and discourse practices as well as how they may serve as
vehicles for language learning and intercultural communication. The proposed
volume seeks to fill this gap by compiling essential, cutting-edge research by
international linguistics and media scholars at various career stages. The
book will be divided into three parts: (1) 'Video games lexis and phraseology'
will cover productive processes surrounding ludolectal morphology, creativity
and borrowing across languages; (2) 'Video game texts and paratexts' will
examine discursive patterns evolving around games as texts and cultural
products and study in particular the 'paratextual turn' in game studies, which
has produced new and evolving discourse patterns and practices among player
communities online and offline; (3) 'Games as tools and objects of language
acquisition' will study various ways in which video games as multimodal,
ergodic and social media have been and may be implemented in second language
acquisition frameworks.

The volume was inspired by LEXESP IV, 2016, an International Symposium
dedicated to Video games and Language, which took place in May this year at
Alicante, Spain. The event featured papers dedicated to the above mentioned
topics and reflects a trend within Applied Linguistics to develop systematic,
cross-disciplinary approaches to studying video games linguistics as a
sub-field of media linguistics. The proposed volume will likely become a major
resource for students of linguistics and media studies, and we expect it to
have a great impact on pedagogic theory and practice across educational
sectors and cultural boundaries.

About the editors: 
Dr Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Media and Digital Communication at the
University of Alberta. Among her key publications are The Language of Gaming
(Palgrave 2012), Literary Gaming (MIT Press 2014), and Language in the Media
(Bloomsbury 2007), and she has won several grants in intercultural games
studies, digital fiction analysis and language acquisition. 

Dr Isabel Balteiro is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Universidad de
Alicante. Her main research area is Lexicology and Lexicography of English and
English for Specific Purposes, where she was given several grants and awards.
Her publications include two books on conversion or zero-derivation in English
as well as a good number of articles on word formation mechanisms and
cross-lexical influences between English and Spanish. 

If you're interested in contributing a chapter, please send your working title
and short abstract (250 words) to Astrid (ensslin at ualberta.ca) and Isabel
(isabel_balteiro_tutora at yahoo.es) by 22 June, 2016.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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