Resumen de Creating Coherence in Audio Description
As an emerging form of intermodal translation, audio description (AD) raises many new questions for Translation Studies and related disciplines. This paper will investigate the question of how the coherence of a multimodal source text such as a film can be re-created in audio description. Coherence in film characteristically emerges from links within and across different modes of expression (e.g., links between visual images, image-sound links and image-dialogue links). Audio describing a film is therefore not simply a matter of substituting visual images with verbal descriptions. It involves "translating" some of these links into other appropriate types of links. Against this backdrop, this paper aims to examine the means available for the re-creation of coherence in an audio described version of a film, and the problems arising. To this end, the paper will take a fresh look at coherence, outlining a model of coherence which embraces verbal and multimodal texts and which highlights the important role of both source text author (viz., audio describer as translator) and target text recipients in creating coherence. This model will then be applied to a case study focussing on the re-creation of various types of intramodal and intermodal relations in AD.
Plan de l'article
1. Introduction
2. Approaches to coherence
3. An extended model of coherence
3.1. Coherence: spreading activation of knowledge and inferencing
3.2. Coherence in multimodal texts
3.3. Coherence in audio description: intermodal and intramodal linking
3.4 Partial and disturbed coherence
4. Coherence in the audio described version of Girl with a Pearl Earring
4.1. From sound-image coherence to coherence between sound and AD
4.2. From dialogue-image coherence to coherence between dialogue and AD
4.3. From intramodal visual coherence to intramodal coherence in the AD text
5. Conclusion
