Language, Gender, and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames

Book Review

Abstract

The book reviewed here is an entry-level guide that introduces corpus analysis methods to those who are interested in corpus studies and want to learn about gender representations in video games and who are already doing corpus studies. While corpus refers to the linguistic data collected and compiled from real life, corpus analysis refers to the statistical operations performed to detect and examine specific language patterns embedded in this data (McEnery & Hardie, 2011; Baker, 2014). The corpus analysis method is used in examining ideological issues such as politics, racism, and gender representations, which cannot be seen on the surface.