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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. 179–198

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Chapter 10. Gestures and facial expressions in audio description*

 | Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
Published online: 30 October 2014
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