Game localisation: Unleashing imagination with ‘restricted’ translation

Journal of Specialised Translation

Volumn , Issue 6, 2006, Pages 10-21

  Mangiron, Carmen ^a   O’Hagan, Minako ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Game localisation; Role Playing Games (RPGs); Screen translation; Software localisation; Transcreation; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079163800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1740357X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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