Essays about: "AVT"
Found 5 essays containing the word AVT.
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1. Lost in Translation : Voice-over Translated TV as a Source for Incidental Language Acquisition
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Voice-over translation (or “audio subtitles”) is the only audio-visual translation (AVT) used for feature-length films on Polish television. Since the reader (lektor) only partially overrides original dialogues and some parts of the actors’ speech are clearly audible, it can be considered as marginal L2 exposure. READ MORE
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2. Change in Meaning in the Swedish Dub of Spirited Away : A translation study on dubbing using a pivot language
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/JapanskaAbstract : This paper aims to study the results of dubbing from Japanese to Swedish using a pivot language. The author examines the Swedish dubbed version of the Japanese animated film Spirited Away by comparing it to the original version and finding differences in what in-formation is conveyed through the dialogue. READ MORE
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3. Family-centered intervention : Auditory Verbal Therapy - empowering caregivers of children with cochlear implants
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för neurovetenskapAbstract : The aims of this study were to examine a) whether the family-centered intervention method Auditory Verbal Therapy (AVT) has had an effect on the levels of empowerment of caregivers of children with CI; and b) whether the parents feeling most empowered have a continual habit of reading frequently with their child and have children who achieve higher scores on lexical-semantic tasks; c) whether the empowerment questionnaire “Att vara förälder” (“Being a parent”) is an appropriate assessment tool to evaluate intervention intending to empower the caregivers of children with hearing impairment. Vocabulary was used as a way to gauge the effectiveness of the method. READ MORE
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4. Development of a Flight Dynamics Modelof a Flying Wing Configuration
University essay from KTH/AerodynamikAbstract : The subject of UCAV design is an important topic nowadays and many countries have their own programmes. An international group, under the initiative of the NATO RTO AVT-201 Task group, titled “Extended Assessment of Reliable Stability & Control Prediction Methods for NATO Air Vehicles”, is currently performing intensive analysis on a generic UCAV configuration, named SACCON. READ MORE
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5. A standard case of subtitling. : A comparative analysis of the subtitling of Scrubs and House M.D. with a focus on medical terminology.
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : Toury’s first law of translation states that translation of all kinds entails standardisation and, moreover, that the more peripheral the status of a text is, the more standardised its translation will be. As such, the purpose of this essay was to investigate to what extent this holds true in the Swedish translations of the two US television hospital shows Scrubs and House M. READ MORE
