Katedra translatologie

Research interest:

• Video game Localization, Localization
• Audiovisual Translation
• Literary Translation

Courses:

• Translation of Multimodal Texts (SP)
• Translation 1 (EN)
• English Conversation
• Business English
• Interpreting 1 (EN)
• Consecutive Interpreting
• Syntax (EN)
• History and Culture of English Speaking Countries 1

Most significant publications:

• Koscelníková, M. 2021. The localization of video games into less widely spoken languages that share a common history : An example of Slovak and Czech legislative parallels. In: The Journal of Internationalization and Localization. ISSN 2032-6904, Vol. 8, 1 (2021), pp. 1-25. DOI 10.1075/jial.20013.kos.
• Koscelníková, M. 2023. Invisibility of Game Localizers and the Status of Localization in Slovakia. In: Acta Ludologica. ISSN 2585-8599, roč. 6, č. 2 (2023), s. 80-91. DOI 10.34135/actaludologica.2023-6-2.80-91.
• Kabát M., Koscelníková, M. 2022. Lokalizácia a jej miesto v translatológii. In: L10N journal. ISSN 2730-0757, roč. 1, č. 1 (2022), s. 4-26.
• Koscelníková, M. 2021. History of Slovak Video Games and Their Localization. In: Bridge : Trends and Traditions in Translation and Interpreting Studies. ISSN 2729-8183, sp. issue no. 2, Translation in Time and Time in Translation (2021), p. 84-103.
• Koscelníková, M. 2018. Titulkovanie videohier na Slovensku. In: Prekladateľské listy 7 : teória, kritika, prax prekladu / Marián Kabát – Lucia Paulínyová. Bratislava : UK, 2018. ISBN 978-80-223-4515-6, s. 55-70.
• Kabát M., Koscelníková, M. 2021. Training Localization. In: Translation and interpreting training in Slovakia / Martin Djovčoš, Pavol Šveda. ISBN 978-80-8127-320-9, s. 157-170.
• Koscelníková, M., 2020. Video Games and Less Widely Spoken Languages: The Baltic States. In: Bridge : Trends and Traditions in Translation and Interpreting Studies. ISSN 2729-8183, roč. 1, č. 1 (2020), s. 68-87.
• Koscelníková, M., 2018. Neoficiálne v oficiálnom alebo O slovenskom preklade videohry Sherlock Holmes vs. Arsene Lupin. In: Kritika prekladu. ISSN 1339-3405, roč. 6, č. 1 (2018), online, s. 81-103.

Significant projects:

• VEGA 1/0113/23 Špecifiká lokalizácie softvérových produktov v jazykovom páre slovenčina – angličtina. Duration: 2023 – 2026, co-researcher
• VEGA 2/0092/23 Preklad a prekladanie v dejinách a súčasnosti slovenského kultúrneho priestoru. Premeny podôb, statusu a funkcií: texty, osobnosti, inštitúcie. Duration: 2023 – 2026, co-researcher
• KEGA 038UKF-4/2022 Precedentnosť ako nástroj v testovaní a zdokonaľovaní interkultúrnej kompetencie študentov prekladateľstva (Precedentness as a Tool in Testing and Improving the Intercultural Competence of Students of Translation Studies). Duration: 2022 – 2024, co-researcher
• UGA III/6/2022 Výskum lokalizácie videohier v slovenskom kultúrnom priestore. Duration: 2022 – 2023, lead researcher
• UGA III/10/2020 Výskum translačných špecifík videohier v slovenskom kultúrnom priestore. Duration: 2020, lead researcher
• UGA III/7/2019 Výskum lokalizácie multimodálneho obsahu v slovenskom mediálnom priestore so zreteľom na detského recipienta. Duration: 2019, lead researcher

Profile:

Mária Koscelníková studied Translation Studies (English Language and Culture and Spanish Language and Culture) at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. She later graduated at the Department of Translation Studies of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra and obtained academic title PhD. She defended dissertation focused at Translation Specifics of Video Game Localisation. She mostly researches theory of video game localisation, general and Slovak, video game criticism of Slovak localisations of video games. She teaches theoretical and practical disciplines. She is a member of organisation ESIST, civic association Doslov, she is a deputy editor of L10N journal and she is also a practicing translator. She translated many books, dialogue letters, subtitles or video games.