Rob suggested the following for some research avenues:
Perhaps what all these have in common is that they are all a kind of additional voice explaining what you are looking at. This suggests that a theoretical approach could be to look at writer-reader relations, reader response criticism, semiotics (what is best communicated by what channel).I think you need to start with some kind of definition, out if which might come your line of enquiry.In terms of research, there may be stuff on TV/film subtitling, although I’m not well versed in it. There could also be material on picture captions, or at least the way that pictures and text work together – as a start, you could look in the world of educational psychology. Names include Dwyer, Winn & Holliday, Duchastel.
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