Dialogic interaction between player and non-player characters in animal crossing

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-01-20 DOI:10.1075/ld.00136.laz

Cecilia Lazzeretti, M. Gatti

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Abstract

Dialogic interaction is a distinctive feature of Animal Crossing, a social simulation video game developed by Nintendo, yet, little attention has been paid to it from a discourse analytical perspective. This paper aims to explore how AC characters are characterised through language and which discourse strategies are applied to engage players. The analysis, based on a corpus of dialogues transcribed by fans of the game, relies on corpus-linguistics methodologies and can be framed within the context of ludolinguistics. The study shows that emotive language is used to create an active interaction between player and non-player characters (NPCs). Even though NPCs are minimally characterized in terms of gender, age, or social status, the collocational analysis of “I” and “you” highlights two opposite personalities interacting in the dialogues: type A, lexically represented as extroverted, dynamic, and active, and type B, represented as kind, hesitant, and passive.

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《动物之森》中玩家和非玩家角色之间的对话互动

对话互动是任天堂开发的社交模拟电子游戏《动物之森》的一大特色，但很少有人从话语分析的角度对其进行关注。本文旨在探讨AC角色是如何通过语言来描述的，以及使用哪些话语策略来吸引玩家。该分析基于游戏粉丝记录的对话语料库，依赖于语料库语言学方法，并可以在游戏语言学的背景下进行构建。研究表明，情感语言用于创造玩家和非玩家角色(npc)之间的积极互动。尽管npc在性别、年龄或社会地位方面的特征很少，但对“我”和“你”的搭配分析突出了对话中相互作用的两种相反的个性:A型，词汇上表现为外向、动态和积极，B型，表现为善良、犹豫和被动。

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Language and Dialogue LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.