Authenticity and realism in documentary sound

Artificial, Natural, Historical: Ambiguities of Synthetic Sound in Documentary Film

This paper discusses the role of synthetic sound in the construction of authenticity and historicity of documentary film in the light of the documentary “All that we have” [9] and its making. It argues that the delimitation between the “natural” and the “artificial” constitutes a key element in the reflection on documentary film sound. After a general inquiry of cinematic sound (part 1 and 2) i...

‏‎thematization strategies, textual authenticity, and comprehensibility‎‏

‏‎the investigation would certainly offer implications for translation, where the translators mostly adhere to only the ideational meaning of the sl text neglecting its textual meaning, a practice which mostly leads to target language texts which have lower readability(compared with their source language counterparts) due to their displaced thematization strategies.‎‏

Sound and unsound practices in documentary linguistics : towards an epistemology for audio

I first noticed problems in linguistic approaches to audio when I began working with multimedia as a member of a team developing curriculum and teaching materials for Australian Indigenous languages during the mid 1990s. It was at a time when computers came into general use for research and teaching; the most important development being the explosive influence of the World Wide Web, but it was ...

Listening with Realism: Sound Stage Extension for Laptop Speakers

Authenticity and Test Taker's Strategies in Iranian EFL Classes

The theoretical framework for this study is research in the areas of language testing andreading. and overview of language testing and current developments in language testing research,including factors that affect test performance and authentic assessment. Test type as the taskvariable, test-taking strategies and gender as the reader variable, and authenticity as the textvariable were selected...