Who is currently audio describing in China? A study of Chinese audio describer profiles

IF 0.5 Q3 LINGUISTICS

MonTI Pub Date : 2020-05-08 DOI:10.6035/monti.2020.12.03

Irene Tor-Carroggio, Helena Casas-Tost

引用次数: 6

Abstract

Access to culture and information is recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by China in 2008. Access services like audio description facilitate the consumption of audio-visual products such as films by those who suffer from sight loss. This paper attempts to contextualize this access service in China and focuses on those in charge of preparing it – audio describers. In order to provide a profile of these audio describers, a questionnaire was distributed in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. The results show that an overwhelming majority of those audio describing are volunteers aged 20-50, and most have a university education background which is not related to Audiovisual Translation. They come from a varied professional background, most have only been audio describing for a few years, they lack formal training in audio description and mainly audio describe films in Standard Chinese.

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谁是目前中国的音频描述者?中文音频描述器配置文件的研究

中国于2008年批准了《联合国残疾人权利公约》，承认残疾人享有文化和信息的权利。像音频描述这样的接入服务为视力受损的人消费电影等视听产品提供了便利。本文试图将这一访问服务置于中国的语境中，并将重点放在负责编写这一服务的人——音频描述者身上。为了提供这些音频描述者的概况，在上海、北京和广州分发了一份调查问卷。结果显示，绝大多数音频描述者是年龄在20-50岁之间的志愿者，大多数具有大学教育背景，与视听翻译无关。他们来自不同的专业背景，大多数人只做了几年的音频描述，他们缺乏正式的音频描述培训，主要是用普通话对电影进行音频描述。

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MonTI LINGUISTICS-

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1.60

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