Ecclesiastic Audio Description: The Church from a Semiotic and Translation Perspective

María Lax-López

doi:10.17533/udea.ikala.351603

Authors

María Lax-López University of Parma / University of Granada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1148-8139

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.351603

Keywords:

semiotic analysis, audio description, church audio description, accessible translation, intersemiotic translation

Abstract

Audio description (AD) is a type of accessible translation consisting of a process of intersemiotic translations from images into words. Its objective is, mainly, allowing people with visual disabilities to create a mental image of the things they cannot perceive visually. In this study, we will address a type of AD that has not been explored in academic and professional contexts: church AD, where the source text is the church, understood to be the architectonic structure used for Christian worship. Our aim is to provide a basis for the study and practice of church AD. To this end, we propose three approaches: functional and contextual, semiotic and normative. The first approach describes the different ways in which churches are used today and the context in which the audio described text is produced. The second helps to identify the visual keys that form the church's meaning and to guide the audio describer in selecting translatable information. The last one provides AD guidelines or strategies that can be applied to the submodality of AD analyzed.

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Author Biography

María Lax-López, University of Parma / University of Granada

Postdoctoral, PhD in Philological-Literary, Historical-Philosophical and Artistic Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy. D. Program in Languages, Texts and Contexts, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

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