Audio description (AD) is an intersemiotic mode of audiovisual translation where images are translated into words to facilitate access visual content for visually-impaired audiences. Over the last decade, it has gained prominence in foreign language research, as its formal particularities and condition a communication-oriented process-based activity present fertile ground designing innovative c...

This paper seeks to expand the notion of translation in order to accommodate not only polysemiotic text types, e.g. film and TV, but also nonverbal types of communication. Without denying the importance of the spoken or written word, our aim is to promote a wider, ’multidimensional’ understanding of translation. As a means to that end, conceptual tools are provided for dealing systematically wi...

in cultural semiotics as posed by tartu-moscow circle the concepts of cultural sphere, border, and the (non)cultural other and the dialogue between this cultural self and that other on the borders are very critical. the mechanism of intercultural translation and the processes of inclusion and exclusion govern this intercultural dialogue. such communication between cultures, in order to be reali...

The Two-and-a-Half Years that Dewey lived in Japan and China offered him an East-West comparative standpoint to examine Euro-American presuppositions. In subsequent work, he took steps the direction of a global philosophical outlook by promoting fusion aesthetic refinements with democratic experimentalism. year 2021 marks centennial Dewey's return United States, yet philosophers this country ha...

The filmic product undergoes a process of deconstruction and selection by the describer, who must decide which particular elements of the characters, costumes, set and action are to remain. Given its importance for professional practice, the acquisition of an appropriate yet flexible concept of relevance for audio descriptions is one of the main aims of any AD course, but how can translator tra...