ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the language of description, concentrating on its oral nature, using as examples the scripts for the Audio description (AD) to Notes on Blindness and an AD created for The First Action Movie describes an early black and white movie, A Daring Daylight Burglary. Pronouns are another potential source of ambiguity. Although the AD script is intended to interact with the soundtrack Braun describes it as 'non-autonomous' it should also have enough internal coherence to stand alone AD has its own mode of discourse that interacts with and is influenced by the language of the script in the ST, but otherwise diverges from most modes of narrative discourse, using the present tense and short sentences. Word choice and word order are critical to create AD that is economical yet vivid. When writing a script the describer must always bear in mind the oral nature of its delivery, with its inherent dangers of juxtaposition, ambiguity and tongue twisters.
