Abstract:As a kind of language, English has different features in different domain. The Electronic Sports is a newborn domain, and its language has its own feature. So when we use English in E-Sports, there are some specific features and functions. E-Sports is a sporting events that the electronic games already reached “athletics” level. Now, most countries begin to hold E-Sports game, so how to communicate with the player from all over the world became a big problem. Firstly, this paper analyzes the features of language in Electronic Sports, some English words and meaning in E-Sports are newly-created, the conciseness of words and sentences and the displacement of language in E-Sports. Secondly this paper analyzes the language function embodied in E-Sports, mainly, there are four functions in E-Sports, the informative function, the interpersonal function, the performative function and the emotive function. 

Key words:   Electronic Sports;  Language feature;  Language function

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

Introduction-1

Chapter I The Generalizations of Electronic Sports2

Chapter II The Features of Language Embodied in Electronic Sports.3

2.1The Creativity of English in Electronic Sports3

2.1.1The New Words-3

    2.1.2The New Meaning of Words-3

2.2The Conciseness of English in Electronic Sports.4

2.2.1The Conciseness of Words-4

    2.2.2The Conciseness of Sentences-4

  2.3The Displacement of English in Electronic Sports5

Chapter III The Language Functions in E-Sports.6

3.1The Informative Function:-6

  3.2The Interpersonal Function-7

  3.3The Performative Function-8

  3.4The Emotive Function-8

Conclusion-9

Reference-10

Acknowledegments11