Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds, and Video Games

by James Paul Gee

Book Overview

Discourse Analysis is becoming increasingly "multimodal", concerned primarily with the interplay of language, image and sound. Video Games allow humans to create, live in and have conversations with new multimodal worlds.

In this ground-breaking new textbook, best-selling author and experienced gamer, James Paul Gee, sets out a new theory and method of discourse analysis which applies to language, the real world, science and video games...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138774510
• ISBN13: 9781138774513
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"