Audio Description for the Arts - A Linguistic Perspective

This book traces the development of audio description (AD), a form of audiovisual translation delivered orally or consumed aurally that makes visual elements accessible primarily to people who are visually impaired, and in particular, art AD as an emergent sub-genre.

List of contents

List of Figures, Examples and Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction and methodological considerations
1 Introducing AD
1.1 Translating semiotically complex texts
1.2 Translation and accessibility
1.3 What is AD?
1.4 Historical overview
1.5 Target users
1.6 Visual disability
1.7 AD language
1.8 Procedural discourse in AD
2 AD for the arts
2.1 What is art?
2.2 Museums and galleries
2.3 Art AD
2.4 Enriched AD
2.5 Live and recorded AD
2.5.1 AD delivery
2.5.2 The AD script
2.5.3 Receptor tools
2.6 Listenability
3 Stand-alone AD: paintings
3.1 Paintings
3.2 Corpus overview
3.3 Typifying verbs
3.4 Tense, aspect, and modality
3.5 Lexical specificities
3.6 Colour names
3.7 In-text orientation
3.8 Writing in the third person
4 Stand-alone ADs: sculptures
4.1 Sculptures
4.2 Corpus overview
4.3 Typifying verbs
4.4 Tense, aspect, and modality
4.5 Lexical specificities
4.5.1 Body parts
4.5.2 Material names
4.5.3 Adverbs
5 AD tours
5.1 Working stages
5.2 Tour structure
5.3 Corpus overview
5.4 Typifying verbs
5.5 Lexical specificities
5.6 Colour names
5.7 Engaging the visitor
5.8 Directional language
6 Touch tours
6.1 Touch and art
6.2 Corpus overview
6.3 Typifying verbs
6.4 Tense, aspect, and modality
6.5 Lexical specificities
6.6 The exploration process
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Elisa Perego is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Trieste, Italy. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description (with Christopher Taylor, 2022). She has published on audiovisual translation, language simplification, and media accessibility.

Product details

• Authors: Elisa (University of Trieste Perego, Perego Elisa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780367681029
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68102-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; History, Media Studies, The arts: general issues, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Humanities, Translation & interpretation, Language: history & general works, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Language: history and general works, Translation and interpretation, The arts: general topics