Video Game Translation and Cognitive Semantics

by Mateusz Sajna

Overview

This book focuses on video game translation from the perspective of cognitive semantics. It presents how the translators' knowledge of cognitive semantics can affect translation. The work is interdisciplinary and aspires to complete gaps in the research on video games. It analyzes almost 3000 standard pages of texts found in eight different games.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631674819
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/02/2016
Series:	Lodz Studies in Language , #47
Edition description:	New
Pages:	157
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mateusz Sajna graduated from the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław (Poland) where he gained his PhD in linguistics at the Faculty of Letters. His research interests include video game and audiovisual translation, as well as cognitive semantics.

Table of Contents

Introduction to video games and video gaming – Video game localization – Cognitive semantics and translation – Video games and blending – Meaning construction