How Co-Speech Gestures are Rendered in Audio Description: A Case Study

Abstract

This chapter is an attempt to study the co-speech gestures rendered in AD based on the taxonomies of gestures proposed by Argyle (1988) and of gesture description strategies put forward by Mazur (2014a). In other words, the aim of this study is on the one hand to see whether the framework proposed by Mazur can be put into practice in a corpus-based analysis, and on the other hand to investigate whether gesture types might be a helpful tool for gesture analysis. We start by discussing the nature of gestures and previous research on the AD of gestures. Then we present the study, its methodology as well as the qualitative and quantitative results.