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Jan-Louis Kruger: What Does Green Digital Accessibility Mean To You?
No full textProfessor Jan-Louis Kruger from Macquarie University in Sydney shares his thoughts on the concept of Green Digital Accessibility.
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Jan-Louis van Dieten, Nicetae Choniatae orationes et epistulae Jan-Louis van Dieten, Niketas Choniates. Erläuterung zu den Reden und Briefen nebst einer Biographie
No full textDarrouzès Jean. Jan-Louis van Dieten, Nicetae Choniatae orationes et epistulae Jan-Louis van Dieten, Niketas Choniates. Erläuterung zu den Reden und Briefen nebst einer Biographie. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 32, 1974. pp. 381-382
Jan Louis van Dieten, Nikephoros Gregoras. Rhomäische Geschichte. Historia Rhomaïke. III. Chapitres XII-XVII
No full textFailler Albert. Jan Louis van Dieten, Nikephoros Gregoras. Rhomäische Geschichte. Historia Rhomaïke. III. Chapitres XII-XVII. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 47, 1989. pp. 281-282
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Making meaning in AVT: eye tracking and viewer construction of narrative
No full textThe reception of film with a view to audiovisual translation (AVT) is a field that has been receiving more attention in the last few years. This shows a move away from product-oriented research. Nevertheless, methodologies for using eye tracking in this regard have not been established. This article presents an attempt to correlate eye-tracking data, collected from participants viewing Wallace Chafe's 1975 Pear Film, with viewer constructions of the narrative. As such, the article provides a different angle to the extensive Pear Tree Project. The findings of the experiment would seem to suggest that visually peripheral elements that play a covert, top-down role in the narrative (i.e. with a higher degree of narrative salience) gain particular narrative importance when competing with the more overt, bottom-up aspects of the narrative (with an equally high narrative salience, as well as a high visual salience).http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2011.632688http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0907676X.2011.63268
Ideology and subtitling: South African Soap Operas
No full textThis article investigates the ideological component of patronage in the subtitling of four South African soap operas: Generations, 7de Laan, Muvhango, and Isidingo. Taking the concepts introduced by Lefevere as point of departure, the article first discusses the various ways in which audiovisual translation (AVT) is subject to manipulation. This manipulation is shown to be a result of the fact that subtitles, as text superimposed onto the image during post-editing, thereby obscuring a small part of the screen, constantly foregrounds itself to the audience. This foregrounding is also affected by the linguistic background of the audience – whether or not they understand the original dialogue. The argument then turns to a discussion of AVT, and specifically subtitling, as rewriting. The link between language and ideology is discussed as it pertains to issues of power, particularly related to the role of English in the media, also in South Africa, where, in Gottlieb’s terminology, South Africa can be described as a multilingual anglophile context. The language policy of the South African Broadcasting Corporation is then discussed in terms of patronage and ideology followed by a discussion of the role of ideology in these four locally-produced soap operas. In this discussion the different ways in which the subtitling practices of the soap operas reflect ideology are investigated. The article concludes that accessibility plays a smaller role in subtitling in South Africa than the ideology of multilingualism and multiculturalism.http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1013958arhttp://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2012/v57/n2/1013958ar.html?vue=resum
Subtitles in the classroom: balancing the benefits of dual coding with the cost of increased cognitive load
Get PDFLanguage teachers in the twenty-first century cannot ignore the possible benefits of using multimodal texts in the classroom. One such multimodal source that has been used extensively is subtitled videos. Against the background of conflicting theories in the fields of educational psychology and psycholinguistics as well as language acquisition where multimodal texts are concerned, this article presents an experiment aimed at determining the impact of competition between different sources of information on comprehension and attention allocation. The material that is investigated is a recorded and subtitled academic lecture in Economics with PowerPoint slides edited in, as an example of multisource communication. The article in particular engages with the issue of language as it pertains to the use of English as medium of instruction for English Second Language (ESL) students in South Africa. Essentially, the article seeks to shed light on the well documented positive effects of subtitles that are explained by the information delivery hypothesis and Dual Coding Theory, and the equally well documented negative impact explained by the redundancy effect in Cognitive Load Theory. Some evidence was found in the study that cognitive resources are assigned to more stable information sources like slides and non-verbal visual contextual information when the presentation speed of subtitles increases. This means that when the presentation speed of subtitles increases, learners focus on stable textual information (like slides) and on nonverbal information (like the face of the lecturer). Using the correct presentation speed of subtitles in multisource information in an educational setting is imperative for the activation of the potential benefits of multisource communication (that includes subtitles) for learning. The findings of the study stand to benefit all fields of multimedia educational design, but also have direct relevance to the use of technological support such as subtitles in the classroom.http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jlt.v47i1.2http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/langt/langt_v47_n1_a3.pd
Psycholinguistics and audiovisual translation
No full textPsycholinguistic investigations of translated audiovisual products have been conducted since at least the 1980s. These mainly concerned the role of subtitles in the processing of language in the context of language acquisition, literacy, and education. This article provides an overview of some of the most productive lines of research from a psycholinguistic angle in audiovisual translation (AVT), focussing on studies that investigated the positive effects of subtitles on language performance, but also on a growing body of behavioural research on the cognitive processing of the language of subtitles. The article evaluates a number of methodologies in some of the most prominent studies on the processing of subtitles, primarily making use of eye tracking, and then provides some thoughts on future directions in psycholinguistic studies on the processing of the language of AVT
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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