De Paula, B;
(2021)
Exploring game grammars: a sociosemiotic account of young people’s game-making practices.
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10.1177/14703572211027214.
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Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between young people’s game-making practices and meaning-making in videogames. By exploring two different games produced in a game-making club in London through a multimodal sociosemiotic approach, the author discusses how semiotic resources and modes were recruited by participants to realize different discourses. By employing concepts such as modality truth claims and grammar, he examines how these games help us reflect on the links between intertextuality, hegemonic gaming forms and sign-making through digital games. He also outlines how a broader approach to what has been recently defined as the ‘procedural’ mode by Hawreliak in Multimodal Semiotics and Rhetoric in Videogames (2018) can be relevant for promoting different and more democratic forms of meaning-making through videogames.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring game grammars: a sociosemiotic account of young people’s game-making practices |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14703572211027214 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14703572211027214 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 by SAGE Publications. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | digital games, game-making, grammar, modality, multimodality, procedural mode, social semiotics, videogames |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134777 |
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