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Comparing introductory sections in city audio guides in Italian and English


 The aim of this paper is to analyse introductory sections in Italian, British/Irish and American city audio guides
 from a contrastive perspective, in order to identify possible differences in the type and distribution of content. Three main
 content types and their corresponding subtypes were identified in the introductions of fifty professional city audio guides and
 were both quantitatively and qualitatively compared across the three groups. Differences between audio guides in Italian and in
 English are identified and discussed in reference to Hall’s ‘contexting’ theory (1983,
 1990), and the findings are then compared to existing guidelines for audio guides
 production provided by scholars and professionals in the field. Finally, on the basis of the results, translation issues are
 addressed by providing a list of aspects that could be taken into account when producing English versions of Italian audio
 guides.