<![CDATA[for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH) are an indispensableaccessibility service in contemporary audiovisual media, providing Deafand Hard of Hearing (DHH) people access to materials that may otherwisebe conveyed by sound. Standard SDH guidelines have evolved sufficientlyto establish a coherent body of conventions governing the representationof dialogue, speaker identification, sound effects, music, and other nonverbalauditory elements. Despite improvements in audiovisual provision,the construction of emotional meaning in audiovisual works remainssparsely engaged. This limitation is especially relevant to the treatment ofinterjections, which often constitute spontaneous expressions of emotion,attitude, and psychological reaction. This study critically examines whetherpresent-day SDH theories and instructions sufficiently convey emotionalsubstance through interjections. Using a qualitative approach through aCritical Literature Review (CLR), this study draws on scholarly literature,institutional directives, and theoretical writings related to SDH, audiovisualtranslation, pragmatics, emotion studies, and accessibility research. Thisreview also covers the main SDH frameworks developed by the BBC, Ofcom,and Netflix, as well as recent studies on emotional accessibility andmultimodal communication. It shows that current SDH practices are largelybuilt on an informational accessibility model that focuses on transferringauditory information rather than representing emotional experience.Conventions, on their face, communicate sounds and paralinguisticinformation, but the latter provides little guidance for conveying theemotional and pragmatic meanings embedded in interjections. Not tomention, today's Ortho typographical conventions fail to accommodate the complexity of emotional expression. This research contends that emotionalaccessibility should be recognized as a fundamental dimension of SDH. Thearticle recommends a more context-sensitive and emotion-oriented modelthat can enable DHH audiences to benefit from both informational andaffective equivalence.]]>
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