a corpus-based approach to the language of audio description

Since the technique is primarily aimed at people who cannot see,
Chapter 2 provides useful insights into the world of the blind, with a specific
focus on eye-related pathologies, the education of the blind, the way in which
visually impaired people get acquainted with the reality and the brain
reorganization supplementing and complementing the sight loss. In this
regard, we will see that both acoustic and haptic information are of the
utmost importance and deeply influence the language used by audio
describers.
In order to position the analysis discussed in the corpus-based study of
adjectivation, Chapter 3 considers audio description from multiple
perspectives, from Translation Studies to Visual Literacy, from Narratology
to University courses and Languages for Special Purposes. An instrumental
use of audio description as a tool for improving foreign language skills will
be presented, along with the academic value of audio description as a
University and cross-disciplinary matter of study.
Since we are dealing with the analysis of filmic audio description,
Chapter 4 provides an overlook of films from a semiotic perspective. For this
reason, we will deal with filmic language, in particular with semiotic codes,
and we will draw a comparison between the codes and the signs involved in
audio described and non-audio described films. Chapter 4 will also clarify
the differences between narration and description and the interrelation
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