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In:Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated
Edited by Anna Maszerowska, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero
[Benjamins Translation Library 112] 2014
► pp. 121–140

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Chapter 7. The importance of sound for audio description

ORCiD logo with link | Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
ORCiD logo with link | Centre d’Accessibilitat i Intel·ligència Ambiental de Catalunya cDepartament de Traducció i d’Interpretació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Published online: 30 October 2014
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