Hirvonen2023
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Hirvonen2023 |
| Author(s) | Maija Hirvonen |
| Title | Guided by the blind; discovering the competences of visually impaired co-authors in the practice of collaborative audio-description |
| Editor(s) | Brian L. Due |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Visual Impairment |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 69–91 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003156819-4 |
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| Book title | The Practical Accomplishment of Everyday Activities Without Sight |
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on how visual impairment functions as a competence in teamwork between visually impaired and sighted co-authors of audio-description, which is both a form of intermodal translation from images to words, and an access service. The analysis of multimodal interaction between the co-authors at work illustrates versatile activities of the visually impaired participants with regard to audio-describing: for instance how they help interpret the multimodal source texts (films and TV programmes), especially the soundtracks, and how they enhance the understandability of the target text (an audio-described film or programme, known as a “Hörfilm”) being produced. The study found that visually impaired co-authors support work-related tasks, both thanks to and despite their visual impairment, using sensory and epistemic competences. The chapter contributes to EM/CA research into asymmetric interaction, epistemic positioning and negotiation, and the practices of “doing seeing”. It points towards an ethnomethodological study of visually impaired competences in interaction and socially shared cognition.
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