Audio description: The visual made verbal

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors: A short profile ix
5. Introduction: The didactics of audiovisual translation 1
6. Part 1. Inside AVT
7. The nature of the audiovisual text and its parameters 21
8. Screenwriting and translating screenplays 39
9. Screenwriting, scripted and unscripted language: What do subtitlers need to know? 57
10. Part 2. Hands-on experience in AVT
11. Subtitler training as part of a general training programme in the language professions 71
12. Teaching and learning to subtitle in an academic environment 89
13. Learning to subtitle online: Learning environment, exercises, and evaluation 105
14. Teaching voice-over: A practical approach 115
15. Teaching synchronisation in a dubbing course: Some didactic proposals 129
16. Training translators for the video game industry 141
17. Teaching audiovisual translation in a European context: An inter-university project 157
18. Part 3. AVT for special needs
19. Training in subtitling for the d/Deaf and the hard-of-hearing 171
20. Audio description: The visual made verbal 191
21. Part 4. AVT in language learning
22. Using subtitled video materials for foreign language instruction 201
23. Tailor-made interlingual subtitling as a means to enhance second language acquisition 215
24. The educational use of subtitled films in EFL teaching 227
25. References 239
26. Proper names index 253
27. Films and other audiovisual material 257
28. Terms index 259