Gênero das palavras na tradução do jogo eletrônico monster prom: uma breve problematização

Abstract

This research exposes reflections about the translation of excerpts from the electronic game Monster Prom, and contains analysis about translation and localization. Its core, however, is related to gender issues in translation. Monster Prom is a game full of dialogues, which seeks for the interaction between player and game, i.e., the way a person is addressed, considering that the personal pronoun you and the treatment pronoun você do not have gender marks. However, the adjectives and nouns that refer to these pronouns (references to people) are inflected in Portuguese, depending on gender and number. Thus, considering that the person with whom one speaks can identify him or herself as male or female, it would be a problem if the translation of adjectives and nouns stays only in one form, male or female. For this reason, we decided to neutralize the translation, using translation techniques, predominantly through transposition, a technical translation procedure