Video games lexicon included in Spanish language: a multiple case study

Abstract

In our current society, the lexical treasure that Spanish has is made up of numerous words that recognize the expressions of a group of speakers. Due to technological development, this reality is present in the Internet space and among consumers of online content, who discover and learn, from this multimodal tool, new terms that arise daily, giving rise to new words. For this reason, in this dissertation, we aim investigate and treat those terms of Spanish and English origin and even neologisms that make up the world of video games, with a viewing of 50 youtubers and an experimentation of 3 successful video games from which it will be obtained, terms which will be later collated to see how they are treated in the different dictionaries. Thirdly, the percentage of these terms will be obtained through the words collected in the reference corpus of Spanish and English. It will also be addressed what attention video games receive recently as a didactic multimodal tool for learning vocabulary.