Anna Matamala
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Matamala is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0924-1884 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9986
Title
Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated
Edited by Anna Maszerowska, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero
Audio description (AD) is a narrative technique which provides complementary information regarding the where, who, what and how of any audiovisual content. It translates the visuals into words. The principal function of this ad hoc narrative is to make audiovisual content available to all: be it a… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 112] 2014. viii, 216 pp.
2022 Neutral voices in audio descriptions: What does it mean? Babel 68:5, pp. 668–696 | Article
A neutral delivery has often been considered to be the norm in audio description, but it is unclear what a ‘neutral voice’ means. This article begins with a discussion of neutrality in prosody and with a contextualization of AD voicing. It then presents an acoustic analysis of a corpus of audio… read more
2021 Audio description Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 17–22 | Chapter
2019 The VIW project: Multimodal corpus linguistics for audio description analysis Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 32:2, pp. 515–542 | Article
Following an overview of corpus linguistics in audiovisual translation, and more specifically in audio description, this article presents the VIW (Visuals Into Words) project and its resulting corpus. It describes the compilation and annotation processes, highlighting the main challenges found.… read more
2018 Audio description in 360º videos: Results from focus groups in Barcelona and Kraków Translation Spaces 7:2, pp. 285–303 | Article
This article discusses how audio description could be integrated into 360º videos by reporting the results from two focus groups conducted in the initial stages of the ImAc project. To involve participants in the research process, the project adopted a user-centered methodology, and a series of… read more
2017 Dubbing versus subtitling yet again? An empirical study on user comprehension and preferences in Spain Babel 63:3, pp. 423–441 | Article
The dubbing versus subtitling debate has been a recurrent topic in the audiovisual translation literature, but empirical research into the reception of both modes is still lacking. This article presents the results of an experiment that aimed to investigate to what extent comprehension, memory,… read more
2016 Romero-Fresco, Pablo. 2011. Subtitling through speech recognition: Respeaking Audiovisual Translation: Theoretical and methodological challenges, Gambier, Yves and Sara Ramos Pinto (eds.), pp. 337–340 | Review
2014 Introduction From source text to target text: The art of audio description Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated, Maszerowska, Anna, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2014 Chapter 6. Audio describing text on screen Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated, Maszerowska, Anna, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero (eds.), pp. 103–120 | Chapter
2014 Synchrony in the voice-over of Polish fiction genres Babel 60:2, pp. 145–163 | Article
The increasing popularity of audiovisual translation in recent years has contributed to a better understanding of the audiovisual world. Nevertheless, some modalities such as voice-over have not received thorough attention. In Poland, where voice-over is the prevailing audiovisual, one voice… read more
2010 Translations for dubbing as dynamic texts: Strategies in film synchronisation Babel 56:2, pp. 101–118 | Article
This article aims to describe how written translations of audiovisual products change along the dubbing process until they reach the audience, focusing mainly on the synchronisation stage. The corpus is made up of the first reel of the Catalan and Spanish translations of three different films… read more
2008 Teaching voice-over: A practical approach The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation, Díaz-Cintas, Jorge (ed.), pp. 115–127 | Article
2008 New tools for translators: INTCA, an electronic dictionary of interjections Between Text and Image: Updating research in screen translation, Chiaro, Delia, Christine Heiss and Chiara Bucaria (eds.), pp. 63–75 | Article
This paper presents INTCA (Interjeccions Català-Anglès, i.e. Interjections Catalan-English), a prototype for an electronic dictionary of interjections in English and Catalan, aimed at the needs of language professionals in general and audiovisual translators in particular. This proposal is based on… read more