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- ItemOpen AccessAccesibilidad, exclusión y profesiones lingüísticas: la traducción y la interpretación desde la discapacidad(Editorial Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2025-12-30) Baudo, Lorena; Valle Contreras, Emilia del; D’Adam, Antuel; Evangelista, Nazarena; Lorenzo, Gabriela Fernanda; Sabaté Carrové, Mariona; Pisonero, FrancoEste artículo aborda una cuestión poco explorada en el ámbito de las profesiones lingüísticas: la accesibilidad en la formación y el ejercicio de la traducción y la interpretación para personas con discapacidad. Aunque los traductores e intérpretes son clave para garantizar la mediación de la accesibilidad lingüística, el estudio indaga si estas profesiones son accesibles, a su vez, para las personas con discapacidad. Los objetivos pretenden 1) analizar la situación de la accesibilidad en la traducción y la interpretación, enfocándose en obstáculos y 2) visibilizar estas realidades para promover concienciación social y cambios estructurales que favorezcan la inclusión. Metodológicamente, el estudio adopta un enfoque mixto con entrevistas semiestructuradas, encuestas estructuradas y consultas a informantes (estudiantes y profesionales de la traducción) con discapacidad. Aunque la muestra es limitada, ofrece una valiosa visión general de las barreras enfrentadas por estudiantes y profesionales con discapacidad. El marco teórico, inscrito en los Estudios de Traducción Aplicados, integra perspectivas críticas, especialmente colonialismo tecnológico, derechos de las personas con discapacidad y accesibilidad. Los hallazgos revelan que, en formación, la accesibilidad se sustenta en el voluntarismo, con escasa institucionalización de medidas inclusivas, mientras que en la industria la problemática es más acuciante porque carece de prioridades estratégicas.
- ItemOpen AccessAll fluff and no substance? The ‘problem’ of care in popular narratives, the cozy mystery and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club(Elsevier, 2026-01-24) Santaularia Capdevila, Isabel; Llurda-Marí, ÀngelsAge studies scholarship has increasingly interrogated the intersection of care for older adults and neoliberal market ideologies. This study explores how popular culture, specifically the cozy mystery genre, negotiates the language and optics of care for older adults in terms of costs and accessibility. Taken as a whole, the stories with ageing detectives offer invigorating alternatives to the traditional decline narratives by sustaining the protagonists as older detectives who still keep their autonomy, independence, and more important productivity by solving cases. While such representations offer exhilarating alternatives to ageist stereotypes, they also risk making older protagonists' value contingent on productivity and activity, while obscuring their potential care needs and the issue of access to care services from the reader. Through a close reading of Richard Osman's debut novel The Thursday Murder Club, this article explores the idealized depiction of later life care within the luxurious retirement village Coopers Chase. The analysis reveals that while the genre guarantees a sugar-coated and comfortable reading experience, it also allows for a reflection on how social changes impact the community, particularly regarding later life care. Ultimately, the article argues that the idealized depiction of the protagonists' later life care facilities exposes a key reality of care under the neoliberal ethos: enjoying quality of life and care in older age becomes a luxury, taken for granted only by those with the means to pay for it.
- ItemOpen AccessChallenging Stereotypes through Visual Narratives: The Figure of the Grandfather in Children's Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives(Edinburgh University Press, 2021-09-14) Valentová, KateřinaPositive attitudes towards older people can be developed over time, and it is of paramount importance to build realistic perceptions from an early age. This article focuses on the figure of the grandfather portrayed in children's literature, comics, and graphic novels, which may all successfully contribute to avoiding cultural stereotypes related with ageing. The selected narratives have a high emotional impact on their readers, enhancing more positive representations of intergenerational relationships.
- ItemOpen AccessA multidimensional framework of bi- and multilingual disciplinary literacies(Taylor & Francis, 2026-01-22) Nikula, Tarja; Gülle, Talip; Bayyurt, Yasemin; Dafouz, Emma; Gerns, Pilar; Huettner, Julia; Kaygısız, Semih; Llinares, Ana; Minardi, Silvia; Mortimore, Louisa; Nashaat-Sobhy, Nashwa; Tiermas, AnneThis paper presents a conceptualisation of bi- and multilingual disciplinary literacies (BMDLs) designed as a dynamic and versatile thinking tool for researchers and practitioners in bi- and multilingual educational settings. It builds upon established theoretical foundations and the work conducted within the COST network CLILNetLE, moving beyond traditional perspectives of literacy development that are often viewed as linear or narrowly confined to reading and writing. Instead, this framework conceptualises disciplinary literacies as situated and socially constructed processes that involve deeply intertwined aspects of knowledge-building, communication, and identity formation. These processes encompass diverse modes of meaning-making resources, manifesting differently across educational levels and disciplinary areas. The conceptualisation outlines several dimensions of bi- and multilingual disciplinary literacies: the bi-, multi- and translingual; multi- and transsemiotic; functional–textual; critical; and technological–digital dimensions. It acknowledges the inherently multifaceted nature of disciplinary literacies, which allows the framework to remain responsive to evolving needs and practices. The proposed flexible and adaptable framework aims at enhancing instructional practices and fostering collaborative approaches across language and content education. This approach ultimately seeks to equip learners with the skills and agency necessary to effectively participate, navigate, and contribute within increasingly complex and multilingual academic, professional, and civic domains.
- ItemOpen AccessObserving and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts(Cambridge University Press, 2020-04-06) Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Prieto, PilarWhile empirical studies have shown the beneficial role of observing and producing hand gestures mimicking pitch features in the learning of L2 tonal or intonational contrasts, mixed results have been obtained for the use of gestures encoding durational contrasts at the perceptual level. This study investigates the potential benefits of horizontal hand-sweep gestures encoding durational features for boosting the perception and production of nonnative vowel-length contrasts. In a between-subjects experiment with a pretest–posttest design, 50 Catalan participants without any knowledge of Japanese practiced perceiving and producing minimal pairs of Japanese disyllabic words featuring vowel-length contrasts in one of two conditions, namely with gestures or without them. Pretest and posttest consisted of the completion of identical vowel-length identification and imitation tasks. The results showed that while participants improved equally at posttest across the two conditions in the identification task, the Gesture group obtained a larger improvement than the No Gesture group in the imitation task. These results corroborate the claim that producing hand gestures encoding prosodic properties of speech may help naïve learners to learn novel phonological contrasts in a foreign language.