Publication: Boundary-crossing events in audio descriptions across English and Spanish
Authors
Alonso Alonso, Rosa
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Akadémiai Kiadó
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DOI
DOI: 10.1556/084.2025.00961
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
Boundary-crossing events have been analyzed from the perspective of the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis
(Slobin, 1996) both in first and second language acquisition. Moreover, this framework has also been
applied to translation, leading to the thinking-for-translating hypothesis. Audio description (AD) is a type
of intersemiotic translation (Jakobson, 1959) that involves translation across sign systems. In this field of
research, no studies have been conducted on boundary-crossing testing the thinking-for-speaking
hypothesis. The present study aims to fill that gap by analyzing this constraint in audio descriptions (ADs)
of two films in the Harry Potter saga. Differences across English and Spanish AD are analyzed as well as the
use of the different types and tokens produced in path, manner, and pathþmanner verbs. Additionally, the
omission and inclusion of boundary-crossing across both ADs has been included. Findings show that
English AD contains more boundary-crossing events. In Spanish AD, a higher proportion of path verbs
were used while more manner verbs were used in English AD. Moreover, expressing Path and Manner
outside the verb was more common in English AD, and boundary-crossing events were omitted to a larger
extent in Spanish AD.
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Citation
Across Languages and Cultures 26 (2025) 2, 189–204
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