Gaming slang: systematisation and creating a graphic interface of a dictionary

Student: Aleksei Bogdan

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

Attention to the growing videogame industry is on the rise recently. Due to this fact, when people not familiar with this sphere may try to play videogames they might not comprehend unknown vocabulary. Aim of this work is the systematisation of the videogame vocabulary, creation of the videogame slang dicrionary with graphic interface (website). Thus regular users would solve their problem with understanding of the unknown lexems and linguists could get additional material for their researches, without relying on unreliable sources such as dictionaries, made by regular gamers without any linguistics knowledge.

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