Audio Description in Translation Studies : A Bibliometric Review

More and more researchers in Translation Studies (TS) have started to investigate various problems in Audio Description (AD). However, the role of AD is still unclear. What is the position of AD in TS? Is it a cuckoo in the nest of Translation Studies? In order to provide a clear picture of AD studies, the researcher will conduct a bibliometric review of the research on AD in the past 20 years. A database of journal articles on AD will be included. The selection of journals in the database will use the following criteria: theoretical importance and relevance to interpreting research, geographical coverage and size of readership, and journal rankings. The articles will be analyzed, and the relationship between AD, Translation Studies and other fields will be identified from linguistic, sociological, epistemological or cultural perspectives. Based on thematic analysis of the data, categories and subcategories will be generated, distribution of categories of articles each year will be shown, and statistics of researchers and research background will be generated. It is expected that the findings will provide a current overview of the studies in AD, which will serve as precise, comprehensive “maps” to guide researchers in the field.