<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The amazing science fiction setting and plot depicted by Ernest Cline in his <italic>Ready Player One</italic> 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.).</p></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.).

Rendering Science Fiction, Culture, and Language While Translating <italic>Ready Player One</italic>

Târgu-Mureş, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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Rendering Science Fiction, Culture, and Language While Translating 

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...

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

Published Online: Nov 24, 2020

Page range: 70 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0024

Keywords
science fiction, translation, subtitling, Hungarian, titles

© 2020 Attila Imre, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Published Online: Nov 24, 2020

Page range: 70 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0024

Keywordsscience fiction, translation, subtitling, Hungarian, titles

© 2020 Attila Imre, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
science fiction, translation, subtitling, Hungarian, titles