Metodologia para elaboração de audiodescrições para museus baseada na semiótica social e multimodalidade
introdução teórica e prática
Keywords:
audiovisual translation, audiodescription, multimodality in museums.Abstract
Recent research in audiovisual translation and accessibility has focused on the need of audiodescriptions (AD) in museums, especially for the appreciation of displayed art such as paintings by the blind and the visually impaired (De Coster & Mühleis, 2007; Holland, 2009). Studies in multimodality have proposed readings of museums as multimodal spaces and the writing of museum texts which integrate verbal and visual signs in order to stimulate the audience’s sensibility (Höfinger & Ventola, 2004; Ravelli, 2006). The former does not provide a systematic methodology for the reading and writing of art works whilst the latter does not include the blind and the visually impaired in museum audiences. This paper reports on an ongoing work which takes AD as a form of intersemiotic translation and the audiodescriber as a mediator in the process of transforming visual into verbal language to be listened to by a blind audience. It aims at a methodology for the writing of audiodescriptions to be used in museum audio guides with the support of multimodal readings of images in museums. It is based on previous research on audiodescription for museums, on the one hand, and on previous research on multimodality studies addressed to museums, on the other. The first steps in the methodology proposed combine a reading based on the semiotic resources of the modal function (O’Toole, 1994) and the interactive meaning (Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996) with criteria for AD writing (De Coster & Mühleis, 2007). The paper will present the methodological procedure designed through an AD of Las Meninas, by Diego Velazquez.
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