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Audio description as a form of accessibility and a topic widely researched in the field of translation studies has been increasingly attracting interest in our country. Audio description is a process making media products accessible in appropriate formats to the visually impaired individuals. Domestic comedy films are one media where audio description is utilized extensively. This article looks into the audio description of a classic Turkish comedy film Neşeli Günler (1978) (Happy Days) from a cognitive pragmatics perspective in the framework of relevance theory. Visual information that visually impaired cannot access through hearing must be provided in the description text so that they can laugh at funny scenes just like the other spectators. Instead of transferring the entire visual information in the scene, considering the gaps between dialogues, the most relevant visual information necessitating minimum effort should be selected which ensures that the emerging cognitive effects following the audience’s interpretation of his/her existing and contextual information results in the production of laughter. This study explores the scenes that reflect the concept of comedy specific to the given period of our socio-cultural texture, and how the translator as a script writer composes the description by an objective and/or subjective approach.

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