Thinking-for-audio-describing: motion events in the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Abstract

[EN] This study examines motion events in the English and Spanish audio-described versions of the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, pursuing two main research questions. First, to determine the ways in which linguistic typology and factors inherent to audio description (AD) have a combined impact on the lexicalization of motion events in the product of AD. Second, to identify the distinct features of the Thinking-for-audio-describing phenomenon. The preliminary results confirm the hypothesized impact mainly in terms of the expression of MANNER in the Spanish AD, and identify a series of compensations for Thinking-for-audio-describing through acoustic elements.