Perspectives: Studies in Translatology

Volume 20, Issue 1, 2012

Special Issue: Pear Stories and Audio Description: Language, Perception and Cognition across Cultures.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

1- Pear Stories and Audio Description: Language, Perception and Cognition across Cultures

Original Articles

2- Towards common European audio description guidelines: results of the Pear Tree Project

3- The Pear Tree Project: a geographico-statistical and linguistic analysis

4- Culture and coherence in the Pear Tree Project

5- How sound is the Pear Tree Story? Testing the effect of varying audio stimuli on visual attention distribution

6- Making meaning in AVT: eye tracking and viewer construction of narrative

7- What meets the eye. Cognitive narratology for audio description

8- Variations on the Pear Tree experiment: different variables, new results?

The emphasis lies on analyses of authentic translation work, translation practices, procedures and strategies. Based on real-life examples, studies in the journal place their findings in an international perspective from a practical, theoretical or pedagogical angle in order to address important issues in the craft, the methods and the results of translation studies worldwide.