Guo, Jiahao Zou, Deyan
Published in
Frontiers in Communication
This paper examines the omission of narrative texts in the English translation of Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. A textual comparison revealed that the translation contains the radical omission of around 50,000 Chinese characters, comprising nearly 13% of the original text. Since the English version reshapes the original work for an En...
Jadot, Anne Roche, Emilie Borrell, Alexandre
National audience
Boy, Bettina Bucher, Hans-Jürgen Christ, Katharina
Published in
Frontiers in Communication
With the emergence of the Internet, social media and video platforms are gaining considerable influence on the traditional media landscape in general and on science communication in particular. This has changed the role of science journalists as gatekeepers because many platforms are based on a participatory culture, in which passive consumers can ...
Rovira-Esteva, Sara Tor Carroggio, Irene
This study focuses on an aspect from literary texts that often generates debate and stirs up controversy: translator’s notes. However, this polemic paratextual element has not raised much interest in Translation Studies so far and the studies delving into its reception by readers are scarce. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to carry ...
Agullo García, Belén
Subtitling has become one of the most important audiovisual translation modes and cannot be understood outside the context of the technology that makes it possible. New audiovisual media are appearing, such as 360º videos, and the necessity of subtitling this type of content to make it accessible is emerging. In this article, an updated review of c...
Briechle, Lucia Eppler, Eva Duran
Published in
Intercultural Pragmatics
In this paper we present the results of the first empirical reception study on the comparative strength of swearwords in two audiovisual translation (AVT) modes. We test the assumption/hypothesis that swearwords are perceived as stronger in writing (i.e. subtitles) than in spoken language (i.e. dubbing), which has led to the long-held translation p...
Åhl, Rebecka
The purpose of this study is to examine how television series can function as a resource for existential reflection in peoples’ lives and thus, be a tool in the creation of a personal view on life. Furthermore, the study aims to investigate how television series can answer existential matters such as life, death, conflicts and finding peace. The ...
von Schantz, Miriam
This study aims at making inquiry into what happens when a viewing subject encounters a film where it proves difficult to recognize if it is factual or fictional. In order to meet this aim the dissertation offers an experimental approach of both theoretical and methodological nature. Drawing on materialist-affective theory and Deleuzian philosophy ...
Öhlund, Elin Nestor, William
Studiens syfte är att lyfta fram mottagarnas tolkningar om reklamens budskap inom fältet TV-reklam, och dess inkludering av regionala stereotyper. Genom tillämpning av receptionsstudie, där både en semiotisk analys och respondentintervjuer får rum, bidrar studien till fortsatt diskussion inom mottagarstudier. Materialet för den semiotiska analysen ...
Gotfredsen, Maria
This thesis is a reception study of Susanne Ostens book, theatre play and children’s film Flickan, mamman och demonerna. The study aims to examine how proffesional crituiqe, published in daily press and journals, handles the crituiqes genre conventions with the theorie that if the cirtic averts from the crituiqes genre conventions that their/societ...
