Terminology policies, diversity, and minoritised languages

Aguilar-Amat, Anna; Santamaría, Laura

doi:10.1075/btl.39.10agu

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DOI: 10.1075/btl.39.10agu

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Terminology policies, diversity, and minoritised languages

Anna Aguilar-Amat¹,

Laura Santamaría²

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The localization of video games into less widely spoken languages that share a common history

Koscelníková

2021

JIAL

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Even though video games are highly popular, localization into Slovak is rather rare and the language struggles to maintain a presence in the video game industry. This is partly because Slovak is a less widely spoken language, and also because it is mutually intelligible with the more dominant Czech language, having a common history. Our paper examines the Slovak-Czech parallels in the respective language-, audiovisual- and multimedia- related legislation as well as market practices. A similar comparative analysis is conducted with other less widely spoken European languages, namely Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian. Our results show that among the examined languages, Czech is by far in the strongest position as a supported language in video games on various platforms whereas Slovak, Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian are hardly present. We hope that the results of our research will stimulate the discussion on this issue.

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The localization of video games into less widely spoken languages that share a common history

Koscelníková

2021

JIAL

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Linguistic landscape in a rural Basque area: a case study in Ondarroa

Basterretxea Santiso

2023

International Journal of Multilingualism

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From sphaza to makoya!: a BA degree for court interpreters in South Africa

Moeketsi¹,

Wallmach²

2005

The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

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In the past, court interpreters in the South African courts were compelled to serve under judges and magistrates, most of whom were agents of the apartheid system and who were therefore not concerned with the proper training of court interpreters nor encouraged any improvement in their working conditions. The meagre six-week orientation provided by the Justice College, historically the only attempt made to provide any sort of training for court interpreters, has always been ridiculed by court interpreters as a 'sphaza training', meaning insignificant and superficial. The inefficiency of the course can be attributed partly to its brevity, and partly to the lack of insight into the interpreting process which led to the service being misunderstood as a mere process of linguistic transfer from one language to another. Consequently, some interpreters feel justified in declining to take responsiblity for poor performance, claiming 'garbage in, garbage out', meaning that poor training begets poorly qualified, incompetent and unprofessional linguistic service providers. This article is an explication of how the University of South Africa addresses this situation by providing training in court interpreting. This training, embraced by most court interpreters as the makoya, 'the real thing', will hopefully improve the status of the service, renew the self-worth of practitioners and enhance their performance.

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Terminology policies, diversity, and minoritised languages

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The localization of video games into less widely spoken languages that share a common history

The localization of video games into less widely spoken languages that share a common history

Linguistic landscape in a rural Basque area: a case study in Ondarroa

From sphaza to makoya!: a BA degree for court interpreters in South Africa

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