This quarter I took a class in sociolinguistics, which is the Writing in the Major class for linguistics. Sociolinguistics is the study of how language and culture are related and how language is used in different social contexts. I chose to write my final research paper on the use of language in World of Warcraft. I focused primarily on the speech clips (such as voice emotes) recorded for characters in the game, but I also considered language used in description and in quests. It was suggested to me that this paper might be of interest to people who play the game, so I’ve put it up on my webspage. You can find it
Here.
It isn’t everything that I intended or hoped, but it was fun to write and I’m considering expanding it for a senior thesis or maybe to present at a conference.
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