Re-instantiation of multimodal meaning in the translation of Chinese comic Zhuang Zi Speaks
The Music of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21243088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jing Zhao (0009-0008-1906-5396, University of Science and Technology Beijing, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-52 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-6351 • E-ISSN: 2330-6343 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23306343.2022.2160561 |
| OpenAlex | W4319841664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
With a growing increase in the study on multimodality, translation scholars begin to take the visual mode into account. Comics, as a typical kind of multimodal texts which combine image and words, can be considered as multimodal meaning construction. In comics translation, multimodality could serve as a resource for translation. Drawing on studies of visual grammar, image-text relations and re-instantiation, this paper adopts an approach which encompasses both verbal and visual aspects of the meaning to investigate the translation of comics. By analyzing examples from Zhuang Zi Speaks: The Music of Nature, it aims to explore how semiotic resources are exploited in translation and how the visual meaning affects the re-instantiation of the target text. It is found that comics translation is a process of multimodal meaning re-instantiation with visual meaning largely activated in the process, motivating changes in actual choices of the verbal and justifying the strategies of condensation, addition and liberal translation. Correspondingly, the image-text relationships have undergone modifications, achieving better visual-verbal coherence. This research has extended both multimodal and translation studies, shedding a new light on translation as re-instantiation and validating the potential of visual mode as a resource for translation
Comics · Dynamic and formal equivalence · Grammar · Linguistics · Machine translation · Multimodality · Natural language processing · Semiotics · Translation studies · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |