Audio Description
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ÖZ: Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkçe sesli betimleme metinlerinde gönderimsel ögelerin öncülleriyle ilişkilendirilmesinin Türkçenin yapısından ötürü (örn. uygun bağlamlarda söylenmeden geçilebilen adıllar ve tamlayan ekli ad öbekleri)... more
The main objective of the project was to investigate the benefits of practising AD for developing L1 skills, especially lexical and syntactic abilities, in Catalan language. Beyond L1 competence, AD practice should provide students with... more
Straipsnyje kalbama apie tai, kaip žmonėms su regos negalia palengvinti prieigą prie audiovizualinės produkcijos. Didžiausias dėmesys čia skiriamas teatro spektakliams. Pristatoma pasaulyje plačiai taikoma garsinio vaizdavimo (angl. Audio... more
In this article, the methodological aspects of a reception study on audio description (AD) are presented. Our hypothesis is that interpretative audio descriptions offer a better experience to AD users and we have tested it with visually... more
Ricerca Continua's seventh publication, edited by Angela Sileo, with a preface by Daniela Guardamagna.
From the lucrative blockbusters distributed by Hollywood powerful studios to the brief videos assembled and circulated by ordinary people, contemporary screen culture is populated by a growing variety of audiovisual texts travelling... more
In 2012, Italy witnessed the successful distribution of a new animated version of Pinocchio: created by Italian illustrator and scriptwriter Enzo D’Alò, this all new version of the famous fairy tale challenges 3-D and digital animation,... more
Accessibility to museums is enhanced by various types of cultural mediation, such as audio guides, which consist of a means to make the museum visit more autonomous and simultaneously replace the traditional guided visit. Their use is... more
Language learners and teachers often resort to films to improve listening skills and benefit from the advantages of this engaging and entertaining resource. Since learning by doing is generally considered to be more effective than... more
Audio description turns the visual into verbal to make audiovisual products accessible to blind and visually impaired patrons. Since its beginnings some thirty years ago, AD has been gaining importance in the audiovisual landscape as well... more
The current research project is set within the scope of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), with a descriptive, multimodal and multidisciplinary approach. More particularly, it aims at approaching the AVT accessibility solutions, by means of... more
The essay (final draft) begins by exploring the classical concepts of narratology, before proceeding to consider to what extent such concepts apply to audiovisual narrative. The essay then critically examines the relevance of narratology... more
The aim of this book is to systematically review studies on the applications of captioning (subtitling) and revoicing (dubbing, audio description, and voice-over) in the foreign language classroom, in order to offer an overview of the... more
La traducción de referencias culturales es uno de los aspectos más complejos en Traductología, por lo que el presente Trabajo de Fin de Máster pretende exponer la experiencia de subtitular y audiodescribir productos audiovisuales con un... more
Greco makes the case that within the human rights framework there is a serious problem regarding accessibility, what he deems the ‘Accessibility as a Human Right Divide’ Problem (AHRD Problem). The AHRD Problem highlights the divide... more
This paper first illustrates the major revisions, such as a new view of society, the nation, and education, introduced by the New Museology or Museum Studies in the 1980s and 1990s. These changes certainly favoured the development of... more
Purpose: Technical communicators concerned with such issues as media accessibility, disability rights, and universal design could explore fertile scholarly ground by investigating Audio Description more through applied research methods.... more
English: Recent years have witnessed an increase in the number of studies incorporating Audiovisual Translation (AVT) techniques as a tool to develop linguistic competence in Foreign Language (FL) learning. In parallel, there has been a... more
This paper approaches audio description (AD) from a Translation Studies point of view. The two first parts are of theoretical interest: AD is defined as a part of the audiovisual text and as a form of intersemiotic translation. Once this... more
This paper first gives an overview of AD in relation to accessibility. Accessibility and transdisciplinarity have in fact become the key notions around which AD has developed in recent times. Accessibility is now seen not only as a means... more
ABSTRACT If new televisions are bringing more and more features in our living rooms, they are still lacking an important axis of the TV user experience: emotions. And this is particularly true for visually and hearing impaired people.... more
Translation as a new strategy of creating audio description was proposed and investigated by several researchers and adopted by professional practice as a cost-cutting strategy that produces a good quality audio description. Theory and... more
The number of accessible audiovisual products and the pace at which audiovisual content is made accessible need to be increased, reducing costs whenever possible. The implementation of different technologies which are already available in... more
As a state-of-the-art article on international audio description research, this study aims to present a general framework for possible linguistic research on audio description and stimulate further scientific activities in Turkey. Current... more
Introduction to the edited volume This book shows some of the ways in which audiovisual translation (AVT) can be approached from an academic, professional and educational point of view. The studies provide a stimulating and... more
Within the field of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) it is still unclear what place Audio Description (AD) occupies. This is even more so when considering its place within Translation Studies in general. Audio Description is often seen as... more
Мурманский арктический государственный университет, Мурманск В статье рассматривается перевод аудиодескрипции с английского языка на рус-ский как возможность расширить границы доступной среды для слепых и слабо-видящих. Предлагается... more
This PhD thesis is an experimental reception study on audio description (AD) for the blind and the visually impaired in which we test the effect of AD narration speed, intonation and explicitation on film comprehension and, secondarily,... more