Linguistic and textual features of audio description

this article is devoted to determining unique linguistic and textual aspects of audio description, such as ellipsis, word order ETC. In this piece of research, various points of view on audio description are illustrated and analysed together with the author’s opinion. Also, the article draws the reader’s attention to efficient, from the author’s point of view, audio description strategies. The urgency of the given piece of research is due to what the author thinks is a rapid development of Audio description as one of the most crucial elements of an inclusive environment. This material can be used for teaching audiovisual translation at the institutions of higher learning. In conclusion, the author’s makes some general observations about the need of taking different linguistic and textual aspects of audio description into consideration, in order to make its use relevant to the needs of the audience.

audio description, the blind, visually impaired, linguistics, textuality, inclusion