In the last decade our mobile phones have been infiltrated by angry birds, our computers by
leagues of legends and our social networks by pleas for help down on the farm. As digital …

Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within translation studies. This book
addresses the need for more robust theoretical frameworks to investigate emerging text …

The objective of this book is to introduce the specialized translation sub-domain known as
“game localization”(Chandler 2005) within the more established domain of localization. In …

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts
that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date …

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It
offers a descriptive analysis of the industry–understood as a global phenomenon in …

This innovative text examines videogames and gaming from the point of view of discourse
analysis. In particular, it studies two major aspects of videogame-related communication: the …

Translation, Second Edition introduces the theory and practice of translation from a variety of
linguistic and cultural angles, and has been revised and updated to feature: a study of …

Game localisation is an emerging field in Translation Studies that initially began attracting
attention in the late 1990s, when the first studies analysing this new translation phenomenon …

Most conspicuous initially with Japanese anime fansubs, fan-based translation has been
developing since the 1980s. In the advent of widespread availability of Web 2.0 platforms …

This article investigates the social justice implications of localization and reports the results
of an empirical study that examines poor designer localization efforts in documentation used …