Thematic Section 2025: Taboo for all? Accessibility of taboo(s) in Audiovisual Contexts
Proposals to this thematic section can address aspects including (but not limited to):
• (Self-)Censorship and ideology in the accessibility of taboo(s)
• Creativity and accessibility of taboo(s)
• Metaphors and taboo(s) in MA modes
• Co-creation of accessibility of taboo(s) between, for example, language professionals and users, language professionals and filmmakers
• Interaction between machine translation uses and users and accessibility of taboo(s), including evaluation and reception of different modalities of translation (human translation, post-edited, raw MT)
• Effects of industry guidelines and policies on taboo accessibility in MA
• Effects of subjects’ variables (gender, age, education...) on taboo reception.
Important information:
* Deadline for submission of abstracts (400-600 words): 10 June 2024
* Notification of provisional acceptance (abstracts): 15 June 2024
* Submission of full papers: November 1st, 2024
* Publication: Novermber 2025
Submissions and queries to: cxavier@letras.ulisboa.pt