Functionalism, norms and audio description teaching: a proposal of didactic units based on movie Yesterday (2019)
Translation Studies; Audio description; Script; Norm; Funcionalism.
Audio description is a modality of audiovisual translation that provides accessibility to visual content. One of the practices in audio description is interlingual translation of audio description scripts. However, when one transfers a script from one culture to another, it is not only the language that is considered. There are nationwide guides that have different guidelines on how to make an audio description that meets the expectations of the target audience. Students who study audiovisual translation often find it difficult to justify their audio description choices. In this dissertation, we propose activities based on norms, functionalist theories, and practical analysis that collaborate with assertiveness in scripts. To research on the implications of these differences and to create a material that assists the beginner audio describer, the present work proposes to compare, from a functionalist approach of Translation Studies, two versions of English (from the United States) audio description scripts of the film Yesterday (2019): one originally made for the streaming platform Amazon and the other translated from a previous script in Spanish within the framework of an audio description workshop and that is available in the catalog of the Audesc app. For the analysis, we will use the source text analysis model proposed by Mazur (2020) and Bardini's (2020) classification of audio description techniques. We intend to identify the differences between the two scripts and infer if these differences are related to the standards of audio description that guided them to create didactic units that assist the audio descriptor to make his translational decisions understanding the intersectionality between the standards and the AD.