Rendering Science Fiction, Culture, and Language While Translating Ready Player One

Attila Imre

doi:10.2478/ausp-2020-0024

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Rendering Science Fiction, Culture, and Language While Translating Ready Player One

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

Volume 12 (2020): Issue 3 (November 2020)

By: Attila Imre

Open Access

|Nov 2020

Abstract

The amazing science fiction setting and plot depicted by Ernest Cline in his Ready Player One may constitute a real challenge to translators and subtitlers alike as his book was also turned into a movie by Steven Spielberg. We have collected hundreds of terms from the original book (2011), its Hungarian translation (2012), the Hungarian dubbed version (March 2018), the most popular Hungarian fansub (2018), and the professional subtitle (July 2018, from the same person who translated the script for the dubbing). Having classified the collected terms into various categories, we have managed to identify successful Hungarian renditions of cultural allusions from the 1980s (movies, books, videogames, shows, songs, characters, objects, vehicles, etc.).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2068-2956 (formerly 2391-8179)

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Language: English

Page range: 70 - 87

Published online: Nov 24, 2020

Published in print: Nov 1, 2020

Published by: Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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General cultural studies,

Linguistics and semiotics,

Applied linguistics,

Applied linguistics, other,

Literary studies,

Literary studies, general

© 2020 Attila Imre, published by Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
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Volume 12 (2020): Issue 3 (November 2020)