TRANSLATION OF VIDEO GAMES AND FILMS – A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED TECHNICAL PROBLEMS

• Authors: Sajna Mateusz

Title variants

PL

Tłumaczenie gier wideo oraz filmów – analiza porównawcza wybranych problemów technicznych

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article constitutes a comparative analysis of video games and films from the perspective of translation studies. Various modes of audiovisual translation are compared and scrutinized. First, the author’s stance on the nature of video games and motion pictures is presented. Consequently, the general difference between these two types of texts is shown. Subsequently, the subject of the paper is narrowed, and the specific dissimilarities between the rendition of games and films are juxtaposed and supported with visual examples. The article shows that despite the fact that video games and films both belong to audiovisual translation, the differences between them can be considerable.

Keywords

EN

VIDEO GAMES; FILMS; AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION; LOCALIZATION

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Badania Gier (Games Research Association of Poland)
• Journal: Homo Ludens
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 1(5)
• Pages: 219-232
• Document type: article

Contributors

author

Sajna Mateusz

• Mateusz Sajna, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Kuźnicza 22, 50-138 Wrocław, Poland

• Mateusz Sajna, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Kuźnicza 22, 50-138 Wrocław, Poland

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