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Item type: Item , A case for rewriting Lolita.(Jan Kochanowski University Press, 2024) Zabalbeascoa, PatrickThis paper calls for new versions, or rewritings (Lefevere 1992), of Nabokov’s 1955 (in)famous novel Lolita. The call is a reaction to the features found in Adrian Lyne’s 1997 film adaptation and the respective AVT versions of Lyne’s and Kubrick’s 1962 adaptations, which seem to support popular visions of Lolita that do not fit in with current sensitivities regarding the topic nor, it is argued, with a deeper, more careful reading of Nabokov’s work. For years, there have been calls for Lolita or some of its adaptations to be cancelled as indecent or immoral, while many of those who market the Lolita ‘brand’ do so from a very similar (smutty) interpretation of the story. This study sets out to show how Lolita can serve the purpose of denouncing child abuse and sexual exploitation, and there is ample textual evidence in the novel to prove it.Item type: Item , The informational component: Ph.D. dissertation(University of Pennsylvania, 1993) Vallduví, EnricEven though the relevance of non-truth conditional notions like ‘topic’ and ‘focus’ in sentence structure and interpretation has long been recognized, there is little agreement on the exact nature of these notions and their role in a model of linguistic competence. Following the information packaging approach (Chafe 1976, Prince 1986), this study argues that these notions are primitive elements in the informational component of language. This component, informatics, is responsible for the articulation of sentences qua information, where information is defined as that part of propositional content which constitutes a contribution of knowledge to the hearer's knowledge-store. Informational primitives combine into four possible distinct information packaging instructions, which direct hearers to retrieve the information of a sentence and enter it into their knowledge-store in a specific way. After a discussion of previous approaches to the informational articulation of the sentence, a hierarchical articulation is proposed: sentences are divided into the focus, which is the only information of the sentence, and the ground, which specifies how that information fits in the hearer's knowledge-store. The ground is further divided into the link, which denotes an address in the hearer's knowledge-store under which s/he is instructed to enter the information, and the tail, which provides further directions on how the information must be entered under a given address. Empirical support for this representation of information packaging comes especially from the surface encoding of instructions in Catalan, which is then contrasted with that of English. Using a multistratal syntactic theory, it is then proposed that information packaging is structurally and purely represented at the abstract level of IS, which acts as an interface with informatics. Finally, in order to further argue for informatics as an autonomous linguistic component, some proposals that attempt to include informational notions under logical semantics are reviewed and countered. This study is an effort to gain insight into one subdomain of pragmatics by integrating it into the larger process of language understanding. This is done by giving otherwise elusive informational notions a specific role in the component responsible for the entry of information into the hearer's knowledge-store.Item type: Item , Recomanacions sobre el tractament de les persones LGBTI+ als mitjans audiovisuals(2024) Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC); Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Igualtat i Feminismes; Col·legi de Periodistes de CatalunyaItem type: Item , Decàleg AccessCat per a l'accessibilitat a les arts de carrer(2023-11-23) Arias Badia, Blanca; Matamala, Anna; Mangiron, Carme; Oncins, Estel·laItem type: Item , Vocabulari multilingüe de càncer de mama per a pacients(2023-01-30) Vidal Sabanés, LaiaEl projecte Vocabulari multilingüe de càncer de mama per a pacients és un dels resultats de la col·laboració entre l’Institut de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA-CER) de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra i l’Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), vinculat a la Generalitat de Catalunya. La versió del vocabulari que publiquem aquí té com a llengua principal el català, amb definicions i equivalents en anglès i castellà. Una de les peculiaritats més significatives d’aquest diccionari és que, tal com indica el seu nom, està destinat a pacients (i també a familiars i cuidadors de pacients) de càncer de mama. El fet que els destinataris no siguin especialistes s’ha tingut en compte tant en la selecció de les entrades com en la redacció de les definicions. S’ha demostrat que són molts els beneficis que comporta el fet que les pacients tinguin informació fiable i comprensible de la seva pròpia malaltia. Disposar d’aquest vocabulari els permetrà comprendre millor la informació que es vehicula per unitats terminològiques que s’utilitzen en textos mèdics, millorar la comunicació amb els professionals sanitaris i poder compartir amb ells la presa de decisions al llarg de la malaltia.Item type: Item , Técnicas de traducción para la subtitulación según las TdT- HispaTAV : introducción, contextualización y explicaciones(2021) Zabalbeascoa Terran, PatrickEl objectivo és acumular ejemplos ilustrativos de TdT-HispaTAV a partir de la noción de “técnica de traducción” (TdT) tal como fue concebida por Vinay y Darbelnet, con sucesivas propuestas de ampliación posterior de Newmark, y Molina y Hurtado, entre otros muchos, actualizado y adaptado al caso de la subtitulación interlingüística por HispaTAV.Item type: Item , Report about a survey-based research on machine translation post-editing : common ground and gaps between LSCs, linguists and trainers(2020) Ginovart Cid, ClaraThis report presents the findings of a survey-based research based on three online questionnaires. It is part of the Industrial Doctorates research n° “2017 DI 010”. One questionnaire is addressed to Language Service Companies (LSCs) that sell or use as a process machine translation post-editing (MTPE, also abbreviated PEMT). It received 66 submissions. Another questionnaire is addressed to individual linguists (inhouse or freelance) who accept MTPE assignments, and it received 141 submissions. Finally, the third questionnaire is addressed to European master or postgraduate PE educators, and it received 54 submissions.Item type: Item , Learners' discourse needs in everyday-life written genres(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019) Bach, Carme, 1971-; López Ferrero, Carmen; Martín Peris, ErnestoLanguage learners’ discourse competence at a threshold (B1) level has not been empirically studied. Research is necessary to determine their degree of competence in different genres and to detect areas for improvement in discourse production. Everyday-life genres usually written at B1, such as (auto)biographies, are not sufficiently explained as sociocultural practices. For these reasons, we study a family (self-referential narrative one) of everyday-life written genres in a corpus comprising 18 autobiographies by learners of Catalan and 18 accounts of experiences by learners of Spanish. Different areas of learning needs are identified, related to three discourse dimensions: becoming aware of the literacy practice the learner is participating in (sociocultural dimension); making proper self-reference in the text and time-anchoring the events in it (pragmatic dimension); and adhering to the narrative structure (textual dimension). Though our results are in general agreement with previous studies on textual learning needs, we identify new problems on the sociocultural and pragmatic dimensions, thanks to our plurilingual and multidimensional discourse competence approach. We translate these needs into indicators of achievement that teachers can use with learners in a communicative assessment process. Our proposal helps to develop learning activities that both foster and assess plurilingual discourse competence.Item type: Item , Refining salience and the position of antecedent hypothesis: a study of Catalan pronouns(University of Pennsylvania, 2010) Mayol, LaiaThis paper investigates the referring preferences of null subject pronouns and overt subject pronouns in Catalan. In particular, it contributes the debate about whether the referring preferences of pronouns in null-subject languages are governed by syntactic factors or by information structure. A questionnaire experiment was performed, in which the word order of the experimental items (SVO vs OVS) was manipulated in order to distinguish syntactic and information structure factors. The results support a multiple-factor model of salience, in which grammatical as well as pragmatic function play a role and in which different forms are sensitive to different factors. Null pronouns refer to the most salient antecedent, which is always the subject, even if it is not the link of the sentence. In contrast, overt pronouns refer to non-salient antecedents (nonsubject, non-link antecedents), if there such an antecedent, and fail to show a clear preference otherwise.Item type: Item , The Trafilm Guide: how the trafilm database works and how to feed in more metadata into the system, with basic trafilm concepts(2018-04) Zabalbeascoa Terran, Patrick; Sokoli, StavroulaThis document is the output of work which aims to provide a practical guide to help use the trafilm gallery as well as add new information, samples, and metadata, and even audiovisual files / clips. The purpose is to build a database of metadata for as many instances of multilingualism as possible as they appear in audiovisuals, basically, fictional feature films and TV series. The concept of multilingualism for trafilm is broad enough to include sign language and dialects and language which is different from the main language of the AV text because the speaker is somehow impeded or conditioned (e.g. non-native speaker, or intoxicated or somehow conditioned) as well as more commonly accepted forms of language variation such as foreign languages, ancient languages and made-up, or constructed, languages. Translation options include dubbing, subtitling (standard or SDH) and audio description. This document includes: • Concepts and definitions, a glossary and abbreviations • A detailed, faithful representation of the online gallery and forms • Explanations and specifications to help newcomers become familiar with how the system works • Some screenshots and illustrations to help visualise what is being referred to • Instructions on how to fill in the forms The order of the forms is important as it reflects the dependency relationship that exists between them, whereby the metadata provided for the higher-level form is automatically shared by all lower-level forms. The ultimate goal of trafilm is to provide a database as large as possible that can be accessed, used and continually developed and made to grow by all of those who carry out research into audiovisual translation or have a stake in the profession.Item type: Item , Llenguatge jurídic català: estat de la qüestió i propostes de futur(2017-03-09) Arnall Duch, Anna; Gelpí Arroyo, CristinaEl llenguatge jurídic català és una de les varietats funcionals de la llengua que es va recuperar, renovar i impulsar des que el català va esdevenir oficial amb l’aprovació de l’Estatut d’Autonomia el 1979. S’hi han destinat múltiples recursos econòmics, s’han fet campanyes i s’han publicat molts recursos, però tots aquests esforços han obtingut uns resultats, si bé molt benvinguts, insatisfactoris. I és que la normalització del llenguatge jurídic català ha trobat i encara troba una gran resistència. El perquè d’aquesta resistència no és fàcil de desgranar: factors legals, sociolingüístics, històrics i, fins i tot, factors acadèmics segurament hi incideixen; però la falta d’estudis en la matèria fa que el camí que ha de seguir aquest llenguatge sigui ben desdibuixat. L’any 2006 els professionals del sector ja van fer saltar l’alarma sobre la necessitat de fer un pas endavant en la modernització del llenguatge jurídic i van assenyalar la importància de no caure en una actitud resignada i acomodatícia; però s’ha arribat al 2013 i la situació no només està estancada sinó que, segons les últimes dades, s’agreuja. Així doncs, partint de la base que han passat més de trenta anys de normalització lingüística en el sector jurídic i que no s’han obtingut els resultats que s’esperaven, la tesi vol fer una radiografia de l’estat actual del llenguatge jurídic català des de diverses perspectives, amb l’objectiu de demostrar científicament la situació en què es troba aquest llenguatge i proposar mesures per contribuir a millorar-la. Per aconseguir-ho, es duu a terme un estudi pluridisciplinari que aborda el llenguatge jurídic des de la perspectiva denominativa, documental, lingüística i sociolingüística per mitjà de metodologies tant qualitatives com quantitatives. Els treballs que compondran l’estudi són una descripció de la dispersió denominativa, una classificació del panorama actual dels recursos, una avaluació de la implantació dels criteris lingüístics de la Comissió Assessora de Llenguatge Administratiu i de la terminologia catalana, una anàlisi d’interferències lingüístiques, un càlcul de l’ús del català en el sector acadèmic i una investigació de camp sobre els factors que afecten la tria de codi. Les conclusions de cadascun d’aquests treballs constituiran els fonaments necessaris per a l’elaboració d’una bateria de propostes que permetin millorar la situació del llenguatge jurídic català. Així mateix, la consecució d’aquest estudi multidisciplinari pretén fer progressar la recerca feta fins ara, cobrir alguns dels buits presents en el panorama actual i obrir noves vies d’investigació tant en el camp de la terminologia com de la sociolingüística. En definitiva, Llenguatge jurídic català: estat de la qüestió i propostes de futur vol representar un avenç en el món interdisciplinari de la llengua i el dret.