Beyond translation: a thorough analysis of the Arabic localisation of The Witcher 3

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Beyond translation: a thorough analysis of the Arabic localisation of The Witcher 3

This paper provides a thorough evaluation of the Arabic localisation of The Witcher 3, a well-known video game in the Arab world. It analyses three game assets including the User Interface (UI), cinematics and voice-overs. To this end, the researcher collected two multimodal corpora of screenshots a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Al-Batineh, Mohammed
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2023
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23198/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23198/1/TD%204.pdf

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