Open AccessPaintings to my ears: A method of studying subjectivity in audio description for art museums
Author(s) -
Ma Olalla Luque,
Silvia Soler Gallego
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
linguistica antverpiensia new series - themes in translation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2295-5739
DOI - 10.52034/lanstts.v17i0.472
Subject(s) - subjectivity , focus (optics) , field (mathematics) , computer science , painting , multimedia , visual arts , art , epistemology , philosophy , physics , mathematics , pure mathematics , optics
An increasing number of museums are using audio description (AD) to provide access for visually impaired visitors to their collections by means of a wide range of mobile devices and apps. However, research in this field is still limited. The present article proposes a methodological approach that combines interviews and corpus analysis for studying audio-descriptive guides of art museums. More specifically, the proposed methodology focuses on the study of subjectivity, which has become a controversial aspect of AD in the past few years and the focus of a number of studies. The article offers a step-by-step description of the methodology and illustrates it with data from a study carried out by the authors on this type of multimodal communication.