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The reception of creative titling on the Main and on the Second Screen: from engagement to clutter and back again?
No full textThis paper focusses on an audience response study of 50 non-native, but proficient, speakers of English of the effectiveness of ‘the second screen’ when watching film. This particular experiment is the result of both new possibilities in technology and progress made in using pop up glosses to aid non-native understanding of culture-bound concepts (see Katan 2014, forthcoming). The idea of the “second screen” experience or phenomenon stems from the evolution in consumer viewing, often watching a film while texting and so on. More recently with the rise of the tablet it has been possible for TV programmes to sync both devices so that the second device can add information, supplement and generally enhance the viewing experience in time with (in general) the TV series.
The use of pop ups, or ‘abusive’ subtitling, is rapidly becoming accepted both in academic research (see, for example the recent Access4All conference 2015), and in reality. A growing number of ground-breaking AV products, in particular Slumdog Millionnaire and the BBC TV Sherlock, have almost surreptitiously broken the rules regarding extra diegetic images and text on screen. Slumdog introduced the mainstream cinema goer to floating text, while Shelock has also introduced visual, non-verbal glosses.
Experimentation with this (Katan 2014) has shown a great deal of potential for AV translation, particularly for culture-bound issues. However one criticism levelled is that of crowding the screen. Hence, this paper will investigate to what extent the use of a second screen can address this issue.
The viewers compared their experience through both a qualitative and quantitative questionnaire of watching using ‘traditional’ pop up glosses on a single screen and watching the pop ups on a second screen. Viewers’ opinions and suggestions focused in particular on enjoyment and utility (for example for use in AV translation and language learning).
Katan, D. (2014) “Intercultural Communication, Mindful Translation and Squeezing “Culture” onto the Screen”. In Garzelli, B. and M. Baldo (eds) Subtitling and Intercultural Communication European Languages and beyond, Edizioni ETS, Pisa. pp. 55-7
Occupation or profession: a survey of the translators' world
No full textThe main aim of this paper is to report on an online questionnaire which focused on translator and interpreter perception of their working world, their mindset or weltanshaung, and the impact of Translation studies and university training on that world.
Though translation has been practiced for millennia (Chesterman and Wagner 2002, Palumbo 2009: 1), and is possibly the “second oldest profession” (Baer and Koby 2003: viii), “the academicization” (Baker 2008: xiv) of the practice only began within living memory. And with academicization has come the (academic) view that the practitioners no longer ply a trade as “secondary, mechanical scribe[s]”, but that they are “crosscultural professional[s]” thanks to the revolution of the functionalist theory (Gentzler 2001: 71). They are now “highly professional translators who belong to the same ‘world’ as their clients, who are focused on professionalism and making a good living, and who are highly trained...” (Baker and Chesterman (2008: 22).
Mona Baker’s comment, above, is actually part of a narrative which exhorts translators to go beyond mere professionalism and to take responsibility for the fact that “Intervention is inherent in the act of translation and interpreting” (ibid: 16).
There are also a number of dissenting voices, which either point to the academic distance from reality (e.g. Milton 2001), to a trend towards deprofessionalisation (e.g. Pym 2005), to the translator’s ‘voluntary servitude’ (Simione 1998: 23), to quality downturn due to lowest-bid market economics (e.g. Muzii 2006) or to the competition from IT (e.g. Biau Gil and Pym 2006). Also, while Sela-Sheffey (2008: 2) laments the lack of research or findings regarding translator status, she does suggest that “all evidence shows that they are usually regarded as minor, auxiliary manpower”
What is it that’s going on here?”: Mediating Cultural Frames in Translation
No full text(Numero speciale: Translation Studies Revisited, (a cura di) S. Bassnett, R. M Bolletteri Bodinelli, M. Ulrych
'The Pearl of the Gospel is scattered abroad and trodden underfoot by swine': habitus and translation through the ages
No full textKatan (M.). — Rêve et psychose : leur rapport avec les processus hallucinatoires. Rev. fr. Psy. chan. ; 1961 ; n° 4-5-6 ; pp. 681-700
No full textKatan (M.). — Rêve et psychose : leur rapport avec les processus hallucinatoires. Rev. fr. Psy. chan. ; 1961 ; n° 4-5-6 ; pp. 681-700. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 20 n°255, 1967. p. 439
Enhanced two-photon absorption of organic chromophores: theoretical and experimental assessments
No full textC. Katan present address: CNRS UMR6082 FOTON, INSA de Rennes, 20 avenue des Buttes de Coësmes, CS 70839, 35708 RENNES cedex 7, FranceInternational audienceFunctional organic materials with enhanced two-photon absorption (TPA) lead to new technologies in the fields of chemistry, biology, and photonics. In this article we review experimental and theoretical methodologies allowing detailed investigation and analysis of TPA properties of organic chromophores. This includes femtosecond two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) experimental setups and quantum-chemical methodologies based on time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT). We thoroughly analyze physical phenomena and trends leading to large TPA responses of a few series of model chromophores focusing on the effects of symmetric and asymmetric donor/acceptor substitution and branching
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Effect of Branching on Two-Photon Absorption in Triphenylbenzene Derivatives
No full textClaudine Katan ‘s present address : CNRS UMR6082 FOTON, INSA de Rennes, 20 avenue des Buttes de Coësmes, CS 70839, 35708 RENNES cedex 7, FranceInternational audienceThe photophysical and linear and nonlinear spectral properties of octupolar compounds with a triphenylbenzene core are investigated and compared with properties of corresponding dipolar branches. A correlation is found between the solvatochromic behavior and the two-photon absorption cross section. Moreover, the nature of the core is found to be responsible for the nature of the coupling between branches; in the studied case only (weak) electrostatic interactions are effective, while other cores, like the triphenylamine moiety, are able to promote coherent coupling between the branches, leading to strongly nonadditive properties
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