A Typology of Speeches among Board GamePlayers for Analyzing the Process of Games

Focusing on an Environmental Educational Game “KEEP COOL”

Abstract

This paper introduces a typology of speech among board game players in order to examine their communication processes from the view point of pedagogical effectiveness using an environmental education game “Keep Cool”. We have already analyzed the speech issued by players applying the KJ method as our basic analysis. To generalize the classification of speeches, we introduce new typology mainly focusing on the player's aspect when playing. Using the new grouping method, the characteristics of the proces became apparent.