TOPICS

Speakers are invited to submit proposals for papers on the following topics or related subjects:

Language and Marketing Strategies

• Language policy and audiences
• Viewers´attitudes, experiences and expectations
• Audiovisual products and services for minority groups
• Subtitles for the hard-of-hearing, sign language, audio description: equal rights and marketing logic
• Globalisation and new on-screen services
• More languages, more viewers
• The less you pay, the more you get?

Distribution and Technology

• New trends in DVD, digital TV and the cinema
• Narrowcasting and language management, language norms
• Television formats and on-line services
• Demand analysis in the audiovisual industry
• Screen translation for non-European languages
• Translating videofiles on websites

Quality

• Quality versus cost in subtitling, dubbing, voice over, interpreting etc.
• Digital rights
• Intellectual property and copyright
• Screen translation and language learning
• Skills and requirements in screen translation
• Training