Catalina JIMÉNEZ HURTADO is a lecturer in linguistics and translation at the Department of translation and interpreting at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. She is interested in the relation between lexical semantics and translation, and in the modulation of both fields in the development of different types of meaning representation and controlled languages. Besides she is interested in the connection between her former research in textlinguistics and terminology management with the field of local grammars, multimodal discourse analysis, and multimodal corpus linguistics applied to the description of audiodescription. She directs a research and development team called TRACCE, which aims to promote accessibility in the media for the blind, the deaf and the hard-of-hearing.
Claudia Seibel
Universidad de Granada
cseibel@ugr.es
Claudia SEIBEL is a senior lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada (Spain). She is interested in terminology management, and the relation between technical-scientific translation and different types of meaning representation. Further interests include controlled language and the application of audio description to local grammar. She is member of the research and development team TRACCE, which aims to promote accessibility in the media for the blind, the deaf and the hard-of-hearing.
Gala Rodrígues Posadas
Universidad de Granada
rodriguezgala@yahoo.es
Gala RODRÍGUEZ POSADAS graduated in 2005 from the University of Granada (UGR) with a degree in Translation and Interpreting and a final-year dissertation about cohesion in AD directed by Dr. Catalina Jiménez Hurtado. In 2006 she completed a postgraduate course in SDHoH and AD, and has since worked as a freelance audio describer for ONCE, the Spanish National Organization for Blind People. In 2007 she received her Diploma in Doctoral Studies. After four years of collaboration with the TRACCE project, financed by the Spanish Science and Technology Ministry, she received a placement to develop her PhD through a pre-doctoral grant with AMATRA in 2008, a project financed by the Andalusian Government