Widely played all over the world, video games have led to a thriving industry whose global
boom owes much to the significant contributions of audiovisual translation and game …

Although video game localization has lately attracted the attention of researchers, with many
papers and books being devoted to this practice, it is still an underdeveloped area of …

The sociological study of video games from the perspective of Translation Studies is a
largely uncharted territory. The present study seeks to address this gap by shedding light on …

Although dubbing is the official and dominant modality of translating foreign films and
television series in Iran, amateur subtitling has been increasingly used by the Iranian …

The present study focuses on providing a descriptive account of the Persian game
localization scene by offering a diachronic and synchronic account of the video games …

Subtitling is a common way of breaking language barriers for audiovisual materials. A
notable portion of subtitles are distributed on the internet by non-professional translators …

Expertise as an indicator of a translator's competence has experienced a growing amount of
research interest recently, but little attention has been paid to the role of registerial expertise …

Drawing upon the notion of 'paratextual agency'(Paloposki,“Limits of Freedom” 191), the
current study investigated the agency of the Iranian fansubbers. To do so, a corpus of 20 …

This thesis argues for greater emphasis in translation studies on the linguistic notion of
register, specifically in the way that professional experience and training–with their …

The sociological study of video games from the perspective of Translation Studies is a
largely uncharted territory. The present study seeks to address this gap by shedding light on …