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Nowadays audiovisual translation (AVT) is a thriving field within Translation Studies. This is, however, a recent development. Although research in the audiovisual field dates back to 1932 (Franco and Orero, 2005), it remained in the realm of Film or Media Studies and it was only in the 1980s that it started to be studied from a translation perspective, within the discipline of Translation Studies. This transition from Film Studies to Translation Studies may account for the blurred terminology in use, the research guidelines and the somewhat unbalanced interest shown in the many modes within AVT. While subtitling and dubbing have been attracting interest in both research and teaching at university level, other techniques such as voice-over have been left aside or not clearly understood, as pointed out by Grigaravičiūtė? and Gottlieb (1999), Franco (2000), and Gambier (2003).
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Orero, P. (2009). Voice-over in Audiovisual Translation. In: Cintas, J.D., Anderman, G. (eds) Audiovisual Translation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234581_10
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