Welcome to a new episode of Minds between Languages! Today, we talk to Jan-Louis Kruger, Professor of Translation Studies at Macquarie University, and discuss audio-visual translation and the cognitive processing of subtitles.

Suggested readings:

Liao, S., Yu, L., Reichle, E.D., Kruger, J.L. (2021) Using eye movements to study the reading of subtitles in video. Scientific Studies of Reading. 25(5): 417-435 DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2020.1823986 .

Kruger, J.L. 2020. Translation, multimodality and cognition. In Jakobsen, A. & Alves, F. Ed. The Routledge Handbook of translation and cognition. Amsterdam: Routledge. Chapter 20. pp. 433-444. doi:10.4324/9781315178127-28

Kruger, J. L., Wisniewska, N., & Liao, S. (2022). Why subtitle speed matters: Evidence from word skipping and rereading. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(1), 211-236. doi:10.1017/s0142716421000503

Further resources:
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/jan-louis-kruger
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan-Louis-Kruger

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This podcast is endorsed by the TREC Network - Translation, Research, Empiricism and Cognition.