A Report On E-C Translation Of Translation And Localisation In Video Games:Making Entertainment Software Global(Excerpts) From The Perspective Of Functional Theory

With a boom in economy and technology,multimedia entertainment is available to many people.Game localisation has constituted a large part of multimedia translation and it is of great importance.The source text of the translation report is selected from Translation and Localisation in Video Games,which talks about a multidisciplinary study of the translation and game localisation.The excerpt offers a descriptive analysis of this booming industry.The source text is featured by objectivity and authenticity,covering technical descriptions and professional definitions.Functionalism representative Christiane Nord introduced the loyalty principle into the functionalist model.This theory concentrates on producing the functional target text considering the attitude and intention of the target audience and the author.Function requires the translator to consider the expected aim of the target readers and adopt suitable translation strategies and techniques to solve difficulties.Loyalty requires the balance among the author of the source text,the translator and target audience in order to produce functional translation to the largest extent.The report concentrates on the translation of an informative text with many lexical,syntactical and stylistic difficulties.Guided by the functional theory,the translator solves difficulties by adopting techniques of annotation,omission,conversion,etc.The translator understands that a successful and adequate translation should conform to the contents of the original work and reproduce its informative contents and language style.To introduce foreign video games to local players and advance the domestic video games to international market,game localisation is of great importance.This translation can enable domestic players and readers to acquire basic knowledge of game localisation.