Tendência de assinatura avaliativa: um estudo de caso exploratório em roteiro de audiodescrição de peça de teatro

Abstract

The study reported on in this paper is within the area ‘Accessible Audiovisual Translation’ as to its type audiodescription (AD) for the blind and visually impaired. As regards the descriptive script of a given (audio)visual product, there was the prescription whereby it was supposed to be neutral. Research carried out in the Laboratório de Tradução Audiovisual (Audiovisual Translation Laboratory) at Universidade Estadual do Ceará (State University of Ceará) demonstrated empirically that there is not neutrality in scripts that had been written in accordance with such a parameter, which was done by way of the Appraisal System (AS) (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005) within the scope of Systemic-Functional Linguistics. Based on the knowledge that all AD scripts are evaluative, it was our intention to move a step further, studying interpretative style in AD: the evaluative signature of the audiodescriber or the evaluative style of the script. More specifically, the objective was to describe the tendency for an evaluative signature that might characterize the two audiodescribers of the children’s theatrical play A Vaca Lelé, whose AD script was written in Brazilian Portuguese. Methodologically, the script analysis was made according to the AS categories, aiming at finding evaluative patterns that could be considered a tendency of the two audiodescribers’ evaluative signature. We found that their signature might be characterized by the following types of evaluation: ‘attitude’ (‘affect’, judgment’, appreciation’) and ‘graduation’ (‘force’).