User Reception of Minority and Creative Approaches to Visual Art AD

Abstract

This article discusses a focus group reception study of the more frequent visual art audio description (AD) style as described in previous corpus-based studies, along with minority and creative styles also found among current practices. These different approaches are described from a cognitive linguistic perspective that allows for a deeper understanding and comparison of the different AD styles. The results from the qualitative analysis of the focus group discussions show that users’ experience of the AD styles varies amongst participants and there are several layers to their experience, since the discussions progressed from specific aspects to much broader questions regarding the very definition of AD and its function.