BEZ OBRAZU, CZYLI SERIALE AUDIO PROBLEMATYKA KREACJI ŚWIATA PRZEDSTAWIONEGO I JEGO RECEPCJI
SANS IMAGE — AUDIO SERIES: THE ISSUES OF WORLD-BUILDING AND ITS RECEPTION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to show the issues related to the world-building present in audio series inrelation to various types of acoustic spaces, a bank of sounds specific to real spaces and the creationof shared fields of action and relations within a given universe in the mind of the recipient. Further at-tention is paid to the issue of differentiating individual characters by creating distinctive language andsound profiles that mark them out as individuals, as well as assigning them specific sound attributes re-lated to verbal and non-verbal communication and the soundscape characteristic of a specific place ofaction or social environment. The analysis also takes into account the role of diegetic and non-diegeticsounds in creating the imaginary world and controlling the recipient’s expectations, as well as theprocesses of understanding and interpreting (or analyzing) the audio series. The article also drawsattention to the role of silence, (un)silence and various types of pauses as meaningful aspects of com-munication and interactions between the characters of the audio series. A separate section is devoted tothe characteristics of the elements of the imaginary audio space in the context of individual cognitiveuniversals. The conceptual framework for the analysis of these issues will be intermediality treated as(a) a process of adaptation, but also, in “adjectival” form, as (b) a specific attribute of an audio-series,i.e. an intermedia message and as (c) a user competency attribute. The article is not normative, butdescriptive, i.e. it describes creative and reception practices related to the eponymous phenomenon.Due to the breadth of the research field, two perspectives are used in the article: the medium-orientedapproach and the user-oriented approach.

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