Chapter 1. Audiointroductions

Fryer, Louise; Romero-Fresco, Pablo

doi:10.1075/btl.112.02fry

In:Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated
Edited by Anna Maszerowska, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero
[Benjamins Translation Library 112] 2014
► pp. 11–28

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Chapter 1. Audiointroductions

Louise Fryer | Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom

Pablo Romero-Fresco | University of Roehampton, United Kingdom

Published online: 30 October 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.112.02fry

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