The discourse structure of video games: A multimodal discourse semantics approach to game tutorials
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چکیده
The article proposes a multimodal discourse semantics approach to the analysis of video game tutorials that provides pragmatic canvases in these tutorials. study mainly builds on linguistic approaches formal dynamic have already been successfully applied other artefacts. will showcase application resulting ‘logic interpretation’ two specific cases This outline particular relations holding between events and segments as distinctive features this genre show discursive patterns instructions.
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عنوان ژورنال: Language & Communication
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1873-3395', '0271-5309']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.11.005