The EverQuest Speech Community

Authors

  • Susana Tosca

Keywords:

games, multiplayer, speech community, linguistics

Abstract

This paper analyses the EverQuest speech community from a pragmatic point of view, in order to fi nd out how multiplayer games speech communities can be characterized. This study is part of the currently ongoing collective project “Have great faction with the dragons – an EverQuest Study” at the IT University in Copenhagen, of which also Jesper Juul’s “The open and the closed: Games of emergence and games of progression” and Lisbeth Klastrup’s “Interaction forms and tellable events in EverQuest” are a part.

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Published

2002-01-01

Bibtex

@Conference{digra10, title ="The EverQuest Speech Community", year = "2002", author = "Tosca, Susana", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/10}", booktitle = "Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings"}

Proceedings

2002: Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings

Section

Papers

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