Abstracts
Abstract
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.
Keywords:
- audio description,
- audiovisual translation,
- intermodal translation,
- coherence,
- multimodality
Résumé
En tant que forme émergente de traduction intermodale, l’audiodescription pose nombre de nouvelles questions pour les études de traduction et les disciplines qui y sont liées. Le présent article examine si la cohérence d’un texte source multimodal tel qu’un film peut être recréée dans l’audiodescription. La cohérence filmique résulte généralement de liens dans et à travers différents modes d’expression (par exemple les liens entre les images visuelles, entre les images et le son, ou entre les images et le dialogue). L’audiodescription d’un film n’est donc pas le simple fait de remplacer des images visuelles par des descriptions verbales. Elle nécessite la « traduction » de certains de ces liens par d’autres types de liens. Dans ce contexte, le présent article examine les moyens disponibles pour la recréation de cohérence dans un film en audiodescription, et les problèmes qui se posent alors. À cet effet, l’article revisite le concept de cohérence et propose un modèle de cohérence qui englobe des textes verbaux et multimodaux et qui accentue le rôle important de l’auteur du texte source (à savoir l’audiodescripteur comme traducteur) et des destinataires du texte cible en créant de la cohérence. Ce modèle sera ensuite appliqué à une étude de cas qui analyse la recréation de divers types de relations intramodales et intermodales dans l’audiodescription.
Mots-clés :
- audiodescription,
- traduction audiovisuelle,
- traduction intermodale,
- cohérence,
- multimodalité
Appendices
Appendices
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