Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.17533/udea.ikala.351603
María Lax-López
Audio description (AD) is a type of accessible translation consisting of a process of intersemiotic translations from images into words. Its objective is, mainly, allowing people with visual disabilities to create a mental image of the things they cannot perceive visually. In this study, we will address a type of AD that has not been explored in academic and professional contexts: church AD, where the source text is the church, understood to be the architectonic structure used for Christian worship. Our aim is to provide a basis for the study and practice of church AD. To this end, we propose three approaches: functional and contextual, semiotic and normative. The first approach describes the different ways in which churches are used today and the context in which the audio described text is produced. The second helps to identify the visual keys that form the church's meaning and to guide the audio describer in selecting translatable information. The last one provides AD guidelines or strategies that can be applied to the submodality of AD analyzed.
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This article analyzes the attenuating function of verbal forms expressing doubt in semi-structured interviews found in the PRESEEA corpus of Santiago de Chile. 36 interviews, collected in 2009, were analized taking into account the participants image, speech acts, and discursive positions. Verb sociolinguistic variation —as determined by sex, age, and education level— was also examined. The main doubt expressions with an attenuating function found include doxastic verbs such as creer (“believe”) and suponer (“suppose”), the modal verbs deber (“must” or “should”) and poder (“could”, “might”), and the verb expressing lack of knowledge no saber (“to not know”). These expressions occur when speakers express their true point of view as a doubt, or when they report a state of affairs. The result is a speaker directed towards the “other”, who does not want to expose their image to their interlocutor, when the speaker expresses opinions about controversial topics or when they report facts that they prefer not to express openly. Sociolinguistic variation is scarce and is mostly related to age.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.17533/udea.ikala.352092
Miaomiao Zhang
This article analyzes interaction taking place in an after-school digital storytelling project, involving a group of teenagers in Catalonia, Spain, with different lingua-cultural backgrounds. It focuses on intercultural mediation activities carried out in one of the early project sessions in which a young girl of Ghanaian origin mobilizes her previous life experience to mediate, for her local peers in Catalonia, understanding of a video produced by Ugandan youth. The data is transcribed and analyzed using a multimodal conversation analytic perspective. Drawing on the theoretical concepts of intercultural mediation, cosmopolitanism, and funds of knowledge, this article investigates the following: (a) how the girl mobilizes her funds of knowledge to mediate the content of the video and the other audience members and, (b) how cosmopolitanism is developed in intercultural mediation. The article also touches on how intercultural mediation is collaboratively constructed across modes, languages, and material objects. The findings indicate that the young participants’ cosmopolitan stances are enacted and enabled in intercultural mediation, as the youngsters can make sense of cultural concepts that they can not tackle as well on their own. The findings further help to reconceptualize the competences, knowledge, and resources of youth in the superdiverse and interconnected world.
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