Subtitling in game localisation: a descriptive study
Mangiron i Hevia, Carme (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Centre d'Accessibilitat i Intel·ligència Ambiental de Catalunya

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis Online, 2012
Abstract:	In less than four decades the video game industry has become a multibillion dollar worldwide phenomenon. As game technology has evolved, allowing for the inclusion of cinematic scenes in games, dubbing and subtitling practices have become incorporated into game design and localisation. However, while years of research in AVT have led to the establishment of subtitling guidelines, both for intralingual and interlingual subtitles, such guidelines are generally not applied in games. Some games provide subtitles of more than three lines, use small fonts, and do not take into account the established average reading speed. This paper adopts a descriptive approach to the study of current subtitling practices applied in the video game industry. It describes the different features of game subtitles and highlights the need for further descriptive and empirical research that should lay the foundation for the development of game subtitling guidelines.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación FFI2009-08027 Generalitat de Catalunya 2009SGR700
Rights:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Game localisation ; Subtitling ; Game subtitling ; Guidelines ; Subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
Published in:	Perspectives, Vol. 21 Núm. 1 (2013) , ISSN 1747-6623

DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2012.722653

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