The multimodal construction of Brazil in videogames: confluences between social semiotics and ludology

• Grant number: 20/13090-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2021
• End date: January 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Roberto Gonçalves Segundo
• Grantee: André de Oliveira Matumoto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research intends the analysis of Brazil's representations in 2d (two-dimensional) electronic games of the 1980s and 1990s, based on an interface between Social Semiotics and Ludology, proposing an analytical methodology in which video game's ludic, interactive and narrative structures are focused upon. This process will emphasize the instantiated strategies in the multimodal meaning creation (meaning making) and the ideological structures that constrain the socially and culturally embedded representations in the proposed corpus.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MATUMOTO, ANDRE DE OLIVEIRA; GONCALVES-SEGUNDO, PAULO ROBERTO. Towards a social-semiotic approach to visual analysis of two-dimensional games: a toolkit. Texto Livre, v. 15, p. 18-pg., 2022-01-01. (20/13090-1)