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Diversity in museums: The inclusive value of museum audio description

Dive-In, 2022
This contribution seeks to explore the potential of museum audio description (AD) – a sub-genre of general screen AD – as an instance of intersemiotic translation for non-sighted and sighted alike by drawing on a systematic review of museum AD guidelines
Chiara Bartolini
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Museum audio description as a foreign language learning tool

Babylonia, 2022
This contribution focuses on museum audio description (AD), originally intended as an access tool for people with visual impairments, in order to consider its potential for foreign language learning (FLL).
Chiara Bartolini
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The Accessible Museum: Towards an Understanding of International Audio Description Practices in Museums [PDF]

Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 2020
Introduction: Audio description (AD) in museums is crucial for making them accessible for people with visual impairments. Nevertheless, there are limited museum-specific AD guidelines currently available. This research examines current varied international practitioner perspectives on museum AD, focusing on ...
Alison F Eardley
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Museum audio description

, 2022
Museum audio description is an accessible and intersemiotic translation submodality (Jakobson 1959: 233) which is becoming increasingly established in the field of training and research in Translation and Interpreting studies. It can be either pre-recorded (through an audio descriptive guide) or live (in an audio descriptive guided tour).
Elisa Perego
exaly   +3 more sources

Inclusive museum audio guides: ‘guided looking’ through audio description enhances memorability of artworks for sighted audiences [PDF]

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2021
Museums aim to offer engaging and memorable visitor experiences, but their visuo-centric bias can prove challenging for people both with and without sight. Audio Description was developed to convey visual information through verbal description to blind and partially sighted audiences. However, cognitive psychology suggests it could enhance memorability
Alison F Eardley
exaly   +2 more sources

Integrating museum studies into translation studies: towards a reconceptualization of the source text as sensory experience in museum audio description and the notion of experiential equivalence

Translation Studies, 2023
This article focuses on museum audio description (AD) as a modality of intersemiotic translation (IT) primarily addressed to people with visual impairments. Still at an early stage of development in terms of both academic research and professional practices, museum AD lies at the crossroads of a variety of disciplines, such as translation studies (TS ...
Chiara Bartolini, Marina Manfredi
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Museum Audio Description: Multimodal and 'Multisensory' Translation: A Case Study from the British Museum [PDF]

Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2018
This paper first illustrates the major revisions, such as a new view of society, the nation, and education, introduced by the New Museology or Museum Studies in the 1980s and 1990s. These changes certainly favoured the development of museum audio description.
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When an Art Historian and a Linguist Meet: Museum Audio Description Theory, Practice and Education, Discussed from Different Perspectives

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
The paper presents an interdisciplinary dialogue in which audio description of art is discussed from two different perspectives: the point of view of an art historian and that of a translation educator and scholar.
Róża Książek-Czerwińska, Olga Mastela   +1 more
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David Orrego-Carmona interviews Lindsay Bywood on co-created audio description in museum settings

JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2023
David Orrego-Carmona, Lindsay Bywood
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Audiodescription des arts plastiques. Autoportrait de Dora Maar

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2021
The article addresses the problem of intersemiotic translation: translating images into words. The first part deals with the issue of image hermeneutics.
Anna Wendorff
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