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Geurts, Francine (2015)

What do you want to play? The desirability of video game translations from English into Dutch according to Dutch gamers and non-gamers

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

The purpose of this thesis is to discern whether Dutch gamers and non-gamers want to play games in Dutch and if so, what they think of existing translations. In order to investigate the research question, an online survey was created and distributed amongst a Dutch sample audience consisting of five different types of gamers, including non-gamers; questions involved the subject’s opinions on several areas of videogame translation and localisation, with a focus on subtitling and dubbing. My hypothesis was that the target group would be willing to play more games if a higher number of them were translated into Dutch in the first place, or if current videogame translations were improved upon in some way. Only the first part of the hypothesis turned out to be false.

videogames

translation

localisation

survey

gamers

subtitling

dubbing

Author

Geurts, Francine

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Translation in Theory and Practice

Supervisors

Dorst, Lettie

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en