ESTRATÉGIAS DE TRADUÇÃO NA LOCALIZAÇÃO DA CANÇÃO JÁ VÃO TARDE PRESENTES NO JOGO HADES (2020)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the subtitled localization of the song Good Riddance (Já Vão Tarde, in Brazilian Portuguese), from the soundtrack of Hades (2020), a digital game developed by the independent company Supergiant Games. Firstly, it presents some theoretical foundations about Translation Studies, digital game localization, subtitling, song translation, and, more specifically, Aubert's (2011) translation modalities and Widman and Zavaglia's (2017) translation strategies. Through this analysis, we investigate whether the subtitle localization of the song has traces of literality or textual equivalence. The results of the analysis indicate that the song localization in Brazilian Portuguese tends towards literality, as it presents a greater number of translation modalities that seek to preserve the semantic-syntactic structure of the source text, with few insertions of the target language.