Lighting as an object of intersemiotic translation (about the audio description of the films Solaris and Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky)
Abstract
The article attempts to analyze the verbal exponents of lighting in audio description – a social service for the blind and visually impaired – for two films by Andrei Tarkovsky: „Solaris” and „Stalker”. It has been show that the following objects seen on the screen have their verbal representations in AD: the source of illumination, natural lighting as a signal of the time of day, radiance as a reflection of light rays, an opening in the room as a place where light travels, light-producing matter, the technique of presenting the image in the frame. Linguistic means are single lexemes with semantics of light, verbs, collocations. Among the stylistic figures distinguished: synesthesia, contrastive expressions, metaphors and comparisons. The study showed the cumulative nature of the description of light in short periods of time.
Keywords
audio description, translation, lighting, illumination, Andrei Tarkovsky
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2205-5470
Dr hab., profesor uczelni, kierownik Katedry Translatoryki i Języków Słowiańskich w Instytucie Językoznawstwa Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II, redaktorka naczelna czasopisma „Roczniki Humanistyczne” z. Glottodydaktyka, redaktorka działu „Przekładoznawstwo” Półrocznika Językowego „Tertium”. Zainteresowania naukowe: translatoryka audiowizualna, interkulturowość w przekładzie tekstów użytkowych,
leksykografia dwujęzyczna, przekład a gatunek filmowy, audiodeskrypcja w filmie.
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