Audio Description and Interpreting Studies: Interdisciplinary Crossroads [Paperback]

Serving as a pioneering work, this volume offers a systematic and comprehensive exploration of the integration between audio description (AD) and interpreting studies.

Audio Description and Interpreting Studies at the Intersection

Part I: Comparison of Audio Description and Interpreting

1. Interaction, Ad Hoc Renderings and Shared Meaning Making: Spontaneous and Live Audio Description as Forms of Interpreting

2. Audio Description and Interpreting Studies: Complexities beyond Practice

Part II: Implications of Audio Description Practice for Interpreting

3. Communicating Meaning: The Importance of Embodied Performance in Oral Translation

4. The Audio Describer as Cast Member: Audio Description at Every Performance

Part III: Implications of Interpreting Studies for Audio Description

5. Assessment Criteria in Audio Describer Training: An Investigation of Learner Perceptions in a University Interpreting Programme in Hong Kong

6. Beyond Words: Examining the Impact of Accent in Audio Description and Interpreting Research and Practice in the United Kingdom

Part IV: Audio Description Approach to Interpreter Training

7. Audio Description in Interpreter Training: A Perspective of Interpreting Competence

8. Impacts of Different Text Types of Audio Description on Undergraduate Students Simultaneous Interpreting Performance: A Pilot Study

Serving as a pioneering work, this volume offers a systematic and comprehelc—