The discourse deictics ^ and <-- in a World of Warcraft community

Discourse, Context and Media

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-19

  Collister, Lauren B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Deixis; Meaning variation; Semantic shift; Virtual worlds; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862162999     PISSN: 22116958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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