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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1938| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | On the perception of audio description : developing a model to compare films and their audio described versions |
| Authors: | Jekat, Susanne Johanna Prontera, Daniel Bale, Richard James |
| DOI: | 10.21256/zhaw-1938 |
| Published in: | Trans-kom - Zeitschrift für Translationswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation |
| Volume(Issue): | 8 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page(s): | 446 |
| Pages to: | 464 |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | trans-kom |
| ISSN: | 1867-4844 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Evaluation; Audiodeskription; Rezpetion von Audiodeskription; Hörfilm |
| Subject (DDC): | 418.02: Translating and interpreting |
| Abstract: | Audio description (AD), the transfer of visual information into spoken language, has enjoyed little empirical research attention (cf. Galiano/Portalier 2010). This is in part due to the heterogeneity of target audiences, which makes it difficult to evaluate the reception of AD. This paper uses the semantic differential (Osgood/Suci/Tannenbaum 1957), a method of quantitatively analyzing affective word meanings, to compare visually impaired subjects’ reception of AD films with sighted viewers’ reception of the corresponding original versions. In our investigation, participants reveal how they perceive aspects of two films by providing a rating on a scale between two opposite adjectives. The results show that the main characters or concepts of the films are often perceived in similar ways by sighted and visually impaired people if the descriptive attributes are concrete (e.g. aggressive). More abstract attributes (e.g. ‘beautiful’) are perceived differently by the two target audiences. Our model can be used to evaluate audio description and to ensure that, where possible, visually impaired and sighted recipients have a similar experience of the film in question. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/4942 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | Konzept und Umsetzung eines Schweizer Zentrums für Barrierefreie Kommunikation |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Jekat, S. J., Prontera, D., & Bale, R. J. (2015). On the perception of audio description : developing a model to compare films and their audio described versions. Trans-Kom - Zeitschrift Für Translationswissenschaft Und Fachkommunikation, 8(2), 446–464. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1938
Jekat, S.J., Prontera, D. and Bale, R.J. (2015) ‘On the perception of audio description : developing a model to compare films and their audio described versions’, Trans-kom - Zeitschrift für Translationswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation, 8(2), pp. 446–464. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1938.
S. J. Jekat, D. Prontera, and R. J. Bale, “On the perception of audio description : developing a model to compare films and their audio described versions,” Trans-kom - Zeitschrift für Translationswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 446–464, 2015, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1938.
JEKAT, Susanne Johanna, Daniel PRONTERA und Richard James BALE, 2015. On the perception of audio description : developing a model to compare films and their audio described versions. Trans-kom - Zeitschrift für Translationswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation. 2015. Bd. 8, Nr. 2, S. 446–464. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-1938
Jekat, Susanne Johanna, Daniel Prontera, and Richard James Bale. 2015. “On the Perception of Audio Description : Developing a Model to Compare Films and Their Audio Described Versions.” Trans-Kom - Zeitschrift Für Translationswissenschaft Und Fachkommunikation 8 (2): 446–64. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1938.
Jekat, Susanne Johanna, et al. “On the Perception of Audio Description : Developing a Model to Compare Films and Their Audio Described Versions.” Trans-Kom - Zeitschrift Für Translationswissenschaft Und Fachkommunikation, vol. 8, no. 2, 2015, pp. 446–64, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1938.
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