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ERIC Number: EJ1415538
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 41
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-2630-0672
EISSN: EISSN-2672-9431
Trash-Talking versus Toxicity: An Analysis of /All Chat Exchanges between Southeast Asian Players of an Online Competitive Game
Eng How Lim; Sompatu Vungthong; Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk
LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, v17 n1 p816-856 2024
With the advent of online gaming becoming such an inherent part of popular culture, the issue of toxicity, particularly in online competitive games, has never been more relevant. In the /all chat, however, where communication between players of opposing teams is expected to be hostile, there have been debates in community forums about whether that type of communication constitutes as toxicity or another form of aggressive discourse, trash-talking. Because both concepts have never been reconciled together in past studies, this study attempts to develop a preliminary framework using categories and definitions from prior studies of each discourse, for the purpose of analyzing instances of toxicity and trash-talking in the /all chat. Thus, a total of 26 /all chat logs from the Southeast Asian server of the online competitive game "Dota 2" were procured. Using content analysis, the /all chat logs were then coded for toxic and trash-talking instances to determine how they are manifested among players in the /all chat with key reference to context. It was found that toxic instances occurred rarely in the /all chat and were mostly derived from in-fighting between players of the same team. Trash-talking particularly dominated the /all chat and though the talk appears unpleasant, it is representative of an aggressive discourse with competitive stakes. Finally, new types and categories were also found and documented for each discourse, further contributing to the existing literature of both toxicity and trash-talking.
Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Asia
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